These were the first AI images I created back in 2021 and were part of a research project on digital reproduction and machine vision. I ran the generation on two google colab models called: “The Big Sleep: BigGANxCLIP” and “Aleph2Image (Delta): CLIP+DALL-E decoder”.

“We perceive. When what we perceive is taken for true, reality, as it appears to us, becomes for us reality itself; The form becomes the object in its totality.”

The plant is organic, it moves, grows, and breathes. It never stands still, it is not an object. The plant is alive. We, however, perceive it as a static object. We do not see the plant moving or growing or breathing. So when the plant is translated, the form is used as if it were the essence of the plant. For us, the form is the plant itself. As a direct extension of the human body, our technology converts this objective translation into information understandable to them. It creates files and images that represent an objective view but are not within our frame of reference. Therefore, we cannot translate this information into what it stands for. In these early machine dreams, the AI imagined new plants that now have become artifacts in ever growing technological advancements. They almost appear as digital fossils.

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