New work, new site

To launch three new projects - Anarchaetypology, Is Anything Real? and Memorex Mori, I thought I should redesign my whole portfolio website (which was very web 1.0 and not at all phone-friendly).

So I’ve joined the Squarespace revolution. Or whatever this is… I feel a bit dirty.

Anyway.

My work looks much better here. And you can look at it on your phone, if that’s the sort of thing you like to do.

The new projects all very much bend the notion of what we mean by photographic, exploring where that boundary lies as technologies shift about yet again. Two of them involve AI models in various ways, and the other uses appropriated VHS tapes. For Is Anything Real? I trained the model on my own photographs using image-to-image prompting, generating new works based on the impossible buildings from my Everything is Real series. Anarchaetypology used a similar process but trained on the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher (above). Here, the point was to chart how the model learned how to imitate these iconic forms, with the earliest (and weirdest) attempts certainly being the most interesting.

The typology here is not of dying industrial forms, but emerging ones - new generations occurring almost daily during AI’s meteoric development.

Memento Mori uses damaged VHS tapes to paint a dark and psychedelic picture of our last traces. What happens when a medium dies? What will we leave behind when all our other media is extinct? You can find out soon when the album releases on Subexotic Records.

More news to follow.