FLAT EARTH, 2023

Our relationship to the meta world is two-dimensional, as a resolution of realities through a screen. Even in our use of three-dimensional software and programming, the representation has a polemical understanding between concept and literal translation.  

Regarding aspects of spatial awareness in technology, the in-person experience will always phenomenologically resonate beyond any combination of synthetics. The representational understanding of space is constructed with pure objective data while our physical participation is a collage of sensation and mercurial focus. In order to construct an “experience” there has to be a narrative or a context through which we rationalize our motion through location or time. 

In the images below, I first asked the Chat GPT/DALL-E AI program to create likenesses of places one would typically find in upscale publications. From these generations, I created an overlay of color blocks, representing the broad elements that constitute the environment. This process renders the image categorically “2D” – culminating in the lack of visual distinctions typically used to simulate dimension. I then submitted these flat, color-blocked representations into Fotor AI using the basic prompt: “Concept 3d photorealistic interior (or exterior).” While slowly decreasing the ‘similarity percentage’ control function in an uncalculated manner, I aimed to assess AI’s approach to interpreting both, abstract shapes and spatial context.