Thomas Noya

Thomas Noya on technical failures as aesthetic choices

Total Recall: All Clear

The constant regeneration of the past through new technologies, and the non-stop consumption of recycled cultural copies, creates loops where the comfort of the familiar dictates the novelty of the future. These newly developed technologies are harnessed to refurbish the old, enabling an overwhelming saturation of desires with shorter life spans: synthetic images, our newest drug.


We are all serial consumers of empty simulations.


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Noya continues his fascination with maximal extremes and the improbable by using AI in his work for its errors, imperfections, and its ability to amplify mutations until they reach absurdity. This preference for manglecore – the antithesis of the Midjourney aesthetic – gave birth to Total Recall: a melding of Cronenberg, Mapplethorpe, and Rammstein.


Instead of using an amalgamation of unknown synthetic people or a smattering of celebrities, Noya explores the extreme expression of the ultimate cultural icon and male sex symbol, Hollywood’s very own Übermensch: Tom Cruise. Tom’s face and the implicit edges of his varied public persona were ultimately the perfect conduit for the ultimate fashion-inspired-erotic-narcisistic-impossible-bodies post-photography series.


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Prints: \
Every mint includes a signed Polaroid that can be claimed for free on [Artfora](https://www.artfora.com/collections/total-recall-all-clear). Thomas will mail the Polaroids within four weeks after release. For purchases made on the secondary market of tokens with already redeemed Polaroids, please contact the seller to arrange shipment of the physical work.


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