Study for Generated Petals (2022)

In 2017, Sarah Meyohas initiated the Cloud of Petals project, for which sixteen male workers gathered to photograph 100,000 rose petals, one by one, at the site of the former Bell Labs in New Jersey, where such innovations as the transistor, silicon solar cell, and numerous programming languages underwent critical developments. Meyohas conceived a real-life algorithm which dictated that human hands must individually open the flower, pick the petal, place it under the lens, press the shutter, and upload the image to a server. The massive dataset compiled was used to map out an artificial intelligence algorithm that learned to create the Generated Petals, interpolating between endless, new, and unique petals.