In partnership with Artpoint, the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel offers you the experience of digital art. Each month, discover the video artworks of four of the most cutting-edge digital artists of the moment on the sumptuous wall of screens located in the lobby. Find out more about the current exhibition here!
The final chapter of Once Upon A Garden, titled Synthetic Rot, is the culmination of this body of work spanning nearly four years. It traces generative AI models’ evolution over this period and their ability to help us speculate on and synthesise the past.
This chapter presents 50 stills and 50 videos of randomly assorted flowers, often with multiple different species sharing the same stem, behaving erratically, making and remaking themselves with only chaos as a compass. Each video is accompanied with the reference still image that was used as a keyframe to create the video.
Flowers from the previous chapter are made even less organic through an Image-to-Image pipeline. The outputs are then used as keyframes to create animations using Runway’s Gen 3 Alpha. The soundtrack for the videos is created by mixing three types of recorded sounds (nature, machinery, people at work) with desert blues musical tracks generated in Suno AI.
Synthetic Rot is the wildest stage of this body of work, where flowers are composed of mostly inorganic material, exposing the fact that they are primordially data mediated through our screens by code made possible by machinery built with natural resources.
‘Flower Dreams" is a mesmerizing fashion collage that transports viewers to a realm where dreams and reality intertwine amidst a tapestry of sensual and soft floral imagery. This captivating artwork celebrates the ethereal beauty of flowers, infusing it with a sense of sensuality and delicate allure.
The composition exudes a palpable sense of sensuality, as if every flower is imbued with a whisper of desire. It is a celebration of the inherent sensuality of nature, a testament to the power of beauty to captivate and enthrall.