Painted Heads explores painting as a mediated collaborative act. The heads were generated using AI, informed by their ultimate manifestation as fabricated painted (physical) objects, in collaboration with Tender and Artmatr.
Trained and degreed 100% in painting (MFA, BFA), and still maintaining a material based practice, this project resonated with me in a multitude of ways. Earlier in my career, I would have found the proposition of a synthetically fabricated painting anathema, as I held (near evangelical) beliefs that computation possessed its own inherent materiality and thus any attempts at material mimesis were at best kitsch and at worst plain evil.
