This work is the result of a dialogue with an AI, which I asked to portray
me, without knowing my physical appearance, and to portray itself based on a
psychoanalytic reading of our conversations. The AI imagined me as a
20-year-old woman and imagined itself in strikingly similar terms. This
exchange led me to reflect on the phenomenon of artistic identity in
AI-assisted creative processes, as its perception stood in sharp contrast to
reality: I am, in fact, a 49-year-old man.
I then printed a series of generative torsos in inkjet, combining the AI’s
projections into hybrid images representing both of us. Over these prints, I stamped
as paths of a labyrinth, fragments of our conversations and the prompts I used,
employing laser-cut woodblocks. These overlays partially obscure the generative
images, resulting in a self-portrait that does not verify identity but
fabricates it, a negotiation between user and algorithm, unfolding at the
intersection of generative methods and traditional printmaking.
Ultimately, the work gestures toward the emergence of a posthuman identity,
where creative processes arise from shared agency between the human and the
artificial, echoing a new correspondence between subjectivity and technology.
