Being in the Garden of Forking Paths

Being in the Garden of Forking Paths, an exhibition at OFFICE IMPART, a multi-dimensional space and platform for contemporary art, features works by CROSSLUCID, Salomé Chatriot, and Pola Sieverding. The exhibition runs from July 17th to August 23rd, 2024.

CROSSLUCID’s latest work, We Have Never Been Human / alias (2024), breaks from traditional construction methods by focusing on the interplay between models, data sets, and prompts. Unlike the common AI approach that emphasizes prompt generation as the key to artistic control, CROSSLUCID prioritizes the model and data interpretations over the artists’ direct inputs.

This shift allows for the emergence of beings with emotional expressiveness previously unseen in photographic and GAN outputs. Emotion here is seen as arising from the complex interactions within the latent space—the undefined and uncontrolled area between prompt, data set, and model.

This concept echoes the themes of Landscapes Between Eternities (2018), the dataset for We Have Never Been Human / alias (2024), highlighting the importance of finding new ways to connect objects and subjects. Released on the platform Alias, which uses protocol-based technology for IP attribution and royalty redistribution, the work invites audiences to delve into the artist’s process. Visitors can engage with the CROSSLUCID x Alias model to create their own artworks, available as digital collectibles or physical prints.

A special event will be the artist talk at the Office Impart this Thursday, 1 August 2024, 6pm.

Very special for us about these works is the AI portraits, which were also featured on the covers of our Slanted Magazine #37—ai. Every single magazine had its individual AI generated cover (a few printed copies and an e-Book are available here!), making it a particularly exciting and visually interesting issue, which is why it’s great to see familiar faces in the exhibition again!

© exhibition shots by Hans-Georg Gaul