Memo Akten
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, 2021
4K video, stereo audio
Custom software using Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Transformers, CLIP, VQGAN
Custom software using Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Transformers, CLIP, VQGAN
3840 × 2160
30fps
1 minute, 58 seconds, seamless loop
30fps
1 minute, 58 seconds, seamless loop
Ed. 1/3 + 1 AP
Copyright The Artist
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Memo Akten’s All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2021) takes its title from Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem, reimagining its vision for the age of AI. Created using custom...
Memo Akten’s All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2021) takes its title from Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem, reimagining its vision for the age of AI. Created using custom software and advanced machine learning, and before consumer text-to-image image tools had been released, the short film reflects on our obsession and deification of technology. For Akten, the boundaries between “nature” and “artificial” are illusory; attempts to control one are attempts to control ourselves. Rejecting both blind submission and wholesale rejection, the work calls for a holistic entanglement of humanity, technology, and the natural world, continuing Akten’s research into meaningful human control over generative systems.
