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Learning to dream 2.1.32 - A statue of a man and a woman holding an umbrella

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Description

67 Megapixel (8192x8192) image, created using custom code and artificial neural networks. Memo Akten (memo.tv). Originally created in April 2017. Reworked and minted in August 2021. In 2017 I created a dozen or so super high resolution (268 Megapixel, 16384x16384) images using custom GANs recursively upscaling themselves. These were some of the earliest artworks created with GANs. The titles were also generated by another neural network based on analyzing the generated images. In 2021 I revisited these same images, and upgraded my recursive upscaling with more up-to-date technologies, and the details are fascinating! :) Early GAN checkerboard and fractal upscaling artifacts magnified in super high-fidelity. (Open the image in a new tab or window to zoom in) --- The artificial neural networks were trained on tens of thousands of images scraped from the Google Art Project, containing scans from art collections and museums from all over the world. These include paintings, illustrations, sketches and photographs covering landscapes, portraits, religious imagery, pastoral scenes, maritime scenes, scientific illustrations, prehistoric cave paintings, abstract images, cubist, realist paintings and many more; an extensive (yet vastly incomplete) archive of human imagination, feelings, desires and dreams; as cataloged and curated by Google, The Keeper of our Collective Consciousness. We have a very intimate connection with the cloud. We confide in it. We confess to it. We appeal to it. We share secrets with it, secrets that we wouldn't share with our family or closest friends. And Google is the Keeper of our Collective Consciousness. It sees everything we see, knows everything we know, feels everything we feel. Living up in The Cloud of all places, it watches over us, listening to our thoughts and dreams in ones and zeros. A digital god for our digital culture. And now, just as the Church, the previous bastion of our Spiritual Overseer, used to be the purveyor of Art & Culture; now Google, bastion of our new Digital Overseer, is moving into that role too.

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