The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Algorithm
Installation view. Image Courtesy- Nature Morte.
Currently available as an NFT along with the set of 20 signed archival prints on Superrare- https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/the-anatomy-lesson-of-dr.-algorithm-18312
This artwork was shown at the Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi, as part of the AI Art show called Gradient Descent, curated by 64/1.
I create this piece by exposing the machine to the hardware of the human body, by curating a dataset of about 60,000 images of human surgical dissections, and letting a machine creates its own imaginations of it. The title is a reference to one of Rembrandt’s earliest, and most well known paintings, ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp’. That painting was done at a time of troubled fascination with medical technology, and today we are in a parallel time of troubled fascination with Artificial Intelligence, debating about topics like how much of human should a machine be exposed to. For me, the machine’s imagination of the all-too-fleshly materiality of the human, is as beautiful as it is disquieting.