Escorpiones

“Escorpiones” is a work that aims to emulate the mental process that arises in the mind of a creator when imagining a piece that he seeks to materialize. This is sought in the result of superimposing multiple images generated by artificial intelligence (DALLE 2 and DreamStudio) and that with the movement of the cursor causes them to overlap and/or gradually change their opacity. In order to give the effect of concrete images, but at the same time, they do not end up being any as it happens in the minds of human beings. Image Generators have been used to emulate those images that are generated in our heads. Things that can become real, but perhaps are not yet, and that can only become true when we make them true. And in this case, they were made through a lot of calculations and information gathering done by code that has learned how to exchange text for pixels.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The triggering idea of this work was the answer given by Charly Garcia in which when asked “What is the logic of the scorpion?” (Name of his new album), to which he replies “There is no logic, there is luck.” This is how the process began, creating a work without an initial logic. That idea referred me to Kaprow, who points out “Those artists who use chance directly risk failure, the failure of being less artistic and more vital.” So risk that failure to the certain “chance” that artificial intelligence provides. Which is not a total chance, since I choose what to generate and what images I am going to use. And what ended up guiding the final idea of ​​the work was the quote by César Aira in his text on contemporary art that proposes “Perhaps the work of art was always that, an entity of precarious or ambiguous existence, suspended between before and after, subservient to a script that hides its beauty and charm like a secret.” To which, what is more ambiguous than the work that is about to be born but has not yet been born? The limbo that entails the process of the work being about to be materialized and not remaining as a simple image in our head. “Scorpions” is understood from the concept of the image in gestation, but one that is not mental, since it was made using these image generators that combine the parameters given by the user and with the information they contain, that is, there is some control of the process but not completely. By dragging our cursor over the canvas we can see how these fictitious images overlap each other, emulating that sensation that occurs in our brain when imagining something that does not yet exist. Because although what we imagine may exist on the physical plane, if we wish, we can distort it to our liking and make something new. And that is where I believe that this work gains its meaning and objective, as can be seen that mental process that we do when we are creating but without having created yet. “Scorpions” was born thanks to the creation process, since there was no prior idea or logic of what to do, but rather it was born and I found it.

Literature

KAPROW, Allan. (1961). Happenings en la escena newyorkina

AIRA, César. (2013). Sobre el arte contemporáneo