Robbie Barrat
Landscapes, 2022-23
Plexiglass print of custom trained networks and other processing scripts
16.4 x 21.2 cm
6 1/2 x 8 3/8 in
6 1/2 x 8 3/8 in
Copyright of the artist
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Barrat is fascinated by landscape and has produced a number of series working with this motif since 2018. Scraping tens of thousands of images of landscape oil paintings from WikiArt...
Barrat is fascinated by landscape and has produced a number of series working with this motif since 2018. Scraping tens of thousands of images of landscape oil paintings from WikiArt and implementing these with a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network), a neural network was trained to create new landscapes. These works from 2022–23 eschew the realistic painterly quality that marked Barrat’s earlier series, and instead feature a mesh of fractal planes which encase and disrupt the image. Like thousands of open tiles on a desktop, the aesthetic speaks of glitches and noise, rather than idyllic views, and connects to the pioneering work of net-art group JODI who emerged in the 1990s.
