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AI project - this is not photography. (ceci …)

When Carl De Keyzer was about to travel to Russia in 2021 as a kind of revisiting of Homo Sovieticus (1989) and had received the official permission to do so, had already arranged his tickets, visa and guide, tensions quickly rose and tanks were suddenly amassed at the border. Fortunately, De Keyzer decided not to travel there after an attempt that had already been postponed due to Covid, because war broke out shortly after. With Putin’s Dream, Carl De Keyzer shows us in an innovative way that remains true to his oeuvre and his artistic personality, how photography and AI can form and become a symbiosis. Although AI is used and the photographer’s gaze is absorbed by the algorithmic data of the computer, De Keyzer remains the designer, the builder and the user of AI. He directs, decides, creates and makes choices based on the computer images, as befits an artist who works with available material and new technology. He not only feeds the machine with his own images (such as from Zona, 2003), with photographs of previous projects for which he traveled abroad, he ultimately adjusts AI by, for example, teaching the system to think asymmetrically. This is how AI learns from what De Keyzer decides and does as a photographer. (Inge Braeckman)

First edition : 500 copies

Introduction by Inge Braeckman

Design by Mario Debaene

Printed by Lamine meesterdrukkers (Herent) at 600 dpi for the highest quality

Art paper by: Fedrigoni Symbol Tatami 150gr

Product form: Hardback, Number of pages: 192, Dimensions: 297×235

180 images.

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