Machine Impressions, four-channel video installation, C-print on paper, 4min, loop, 2023
Adrienn Mária Kiss has also incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into the creation of the four-channel animation (Machine Impressions). Some of the basic frames of the cinematic work are made up of analogue and then digitised works of the artist, while the so-called generative imaging process outsourced to AI fills in the "gaps" in between. The production of visual output here is not hierarchical (part-part) but juxtapositional (non-hierarchical, linear), i.e. the AI, guided by the aesthetic criteria of the artist and the artist, the machine, complementing each other, creates a new visual quality. The algorithmic playing field is set according to the same creative guidelines as the hundreds of items of visual data produced by Kiss provide the initial corpus, the basic data set, for the upgraded AI to generate further images. This creates a complementary relationship between classical image-making processes and the AI artist-driven, art-driven, machine-generated images within a defined framework.
(Julia Salamon, curator of the exhibition “Letting Do” 2023, Torula Art Space, Győr)
Photos and video: Zsuzsi Simon, Adrienn Mária Kiss
