# All media created by **Aurèce Vettier**

Last Night Before The Ascent

6 GAN-generated impossible leaves.
Since 2018, we've trained GANs as part of the Potential Herbarium series, on more than 4 million herbarium boards, and generated many fascinating imaginary plant shapes. 
These shapes are quite anti-darwinian, and are a seminal constituant of our visual research at aurece vettier. 
Ref. AV-2021-U-166

areal.collect(6)

This work is part of our series "Circular Ruins", itself stemming from "Potential Herbariums", a wide array of generative works derived from GANs. These models were trained on more than 4 million herbariums gathered worldwide. 
Inspired by a short story by Jorge Luis Borges as well as "Atlas of Remote Islands", a book by Judith Schalansky, we used the GAN-generated shapes of a fascinating -and somewhat impossible- vegetal to create a 3D landscape, a imaginary remote island to be explored. Ref. AV-2021-U-72

then came clouds of smoke

This piece is part of a series of 5 poems, that always begin with the same sentence : « we are the trees ». 

GPT-3 algorithms were confronted to verses from aurèce vettier’s Elegia Machina (2021), intimate travel memories and description of scents, and fragments from J.L. Borges short stories. 

As the poems seem to reference each other, there is no beginning nor end of this meditative reflection on the fate of imaginary trees.

Ref: AV-2021-U-161

we are the trees and we compress our hearts

A verse of hope written with GPT-3, translated in latent botanist writing. Ref. AV-2021-M-127

element/h0pe

This piece is part of a series of 5 poems, that are part of theVERSEverse project and always begin with the same sentence : « we are the trees ».

GPT-3 algorithms were confronted to verses from aurèce vettier’s Elegia Machina (2021), intimate travel memories and description of scents, and fragments from J.L. Borges short stories.

As the poems seem to reference each other, there is no beginning nor end of this meditative reflection on the fate of imaginary trees.

Ref: AV-2021-U-164

we are the trees on the slopes of Vesuvius

This GAN-generated pastel, part of the Potential Herbarium series, materializing many forth and back trips between the real and the data space.
After training a GAN on more than 4 million herbarium boards, we generated many fascinating imaginary plant shapes. 
We used this raw material to create dozens of hand-drawn oil pastels, reproducing the very specific, anti-Darwinian shapes.
We then trained a 2nd GAN on these pastels, and thus generated this "impossible plant pastel".
The name of the plan was also generated with Markov chains trained on thousands of Latin plant names.

umbriphytum afluentstolo will be displayed in spring 2021 on the streets of Paris, as part as the Pole Gallery project. The collector of this 1/1 piece will receive a photograph of this street installation, creating a link with a ephemeral, real-world experience. Ref. AV-2021-U-73


umbriphytum afluentstolo

This piece is part of a series of 5 poems, that are part of theVERSEverse project and always begin with the same sentence : « we are the trees ».

GPT-3 algorithms were confronted to verses from aurèce vettier’s Elegia Machina (2021), intimate travel memories and description of scents, and fragments from J.L. Borges short stories.

As the poems seem to reference each other, there is no beginning nor end of this meditative reflection on the fate of imaginary trees.

Ref: AV-2021-U-163

we are the trees forming circular ruins

This GAN-generated pastel, part of the Potential Herbarium series, materializing many forth and back trips between the real and the data space. After training a GAN on more than 4 million herbarium boards, we generated many fascinating imaginary plant shapes. We used this raw material to create dozens of hand-drawn oil pastels, reproducing the very specific, anti-Darwinian shapes. We then trained a 2nd GAN on these pastels, and thus generated this "impossible plant pastel". The name of the plan was also generated with Markov chains trained on thousands of Latin plant names. streptogranum aellocaulis will be displayed in spring 2021 on the streets of Paris, as part as the Pole Gallery project. The collector of this 1/1 piece will receive a photograph of this street installation, creating a link with a ephemeral, real-world experience. Ref. AV-2021-U-78

streptogranum aellocaulis

SuperRare

Foundation

A song from French rapper Booba, translated in latent botanist writing. Ref. AV-2021-U-105

element/vocal box

Hic et Nunc

we are the trees on a new planet, the day after the last human left for the stars

This piece is part of a series of 5 poems, that are part of theVERSEverse project and always begin with the same sentence : « we are the trees ».

GPT-3 algorithms were confronted to verses from aurèce vettier’s Elegia Machina (2021), intimate travel memories and description of scents, and fragments from J.L. Borges short stories.

As the poems seem to reference each other, there is no beginning nor end of this meditative reflection on the fate of imaginary trees.

Ref: AV-2021-U-165

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