Untitled, from the series EXPANSION (AI)

EXPANSION (AI) is an exploration of the creative possibilities using a rudimentary Artificial Intelligence program to enlarge an image layer by layer. The process is controlled by the artist, as the AI’s assignment is to use the information from the preceding layer to continue, and only when the result is accepted, the image is prepared to be expanded in the next run. The resulting image is a construct of this collaboration. Each image title refers to the location of the original images (using a 3 letter abbreviation), the serial number of the photos taken on that location, and finally, the number of expansions that were performed on this particular image. As such, the titles are meant to convey a generative categorisation process. The work here is called "GNT.1.9".

However, the images are presented in frames with mirrored edges on the sides; they reveal the AI continuing to run into infinity, beyond the boundaries of the frame, effectively being out of the artist’s control. 

The images shown are intended to show constructions that at first glance may seem like real buildings, as of these could be views from a futuristic (or even just a contemporary) landscape, but it is only upon closer inspection that the “errors” in the images are revealed. This game between reality and surreality enhances some of the issues in dealing with artificial intelligence and finding ways of working together with the medium.