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I can’t deny that I’m positively stuck on creating visual and tactile artwork that proudly leans into the chaos. I seek to mix whimsy and craft; to accentuate the form of function in everyday living… but thats really only half of it.
My work ultimately centers on empathy and revealing a beauty where people are rarely taught to look for it…in disruption and imposed irregularity. Through these layered depictions of a sort-of-history I look to create vessel in which patrons can safely recall the small moments that quietly shape who we become.
GALLERY SPACE
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Since ‘21 I’ve been quietly at work researching developmernts in frontier and local-hosted systems. In recent times, I have been focused on moderated in both professional and creative projects if logical, whether that means something as simple as reverse image searching outputs or something more challenging as developing original code for application.
An Interactive Module for Color Theory x Memory
‘My digital self, and migraine’ - 2022 Adriaan Doering-Dorival (mbd) Gen. 2.8
Digital Identity
Around 2021, amongst other things, I remember I started working hard at navigating effective prompting. Coincidentally I was also having these intense migraines that if I’d close my eyes, I’d see these super-contoured depictions of peoples’ faces strobing across my darkened vision. When it would occur, thankfully as seldomly as it did, I remember despite such a pain behind my eyes…what was in front of my eyes was something truly breathtaking.
I started this project in an attempt to record my face during those perilous moments, and playing around with the results had me testing the limits of Wonder AI gen 2.8 interference. More recent generations of AI can better differentiate hallucinations, sure, but I was intrigued by using the tool to reflect a ‘digital self’ in all of it’s objective inhumanity.
By prompting feedback loops over multiple iterative rounds, I slowly worked toward a cohesive, albeit completely inaccurate, representation from a third person perspective, the digital. The only question I would ask is: How am I seen by the machine?
~a.d.
Making assets, not content
Over the years, I have used Adobe Products within my workflows…usually to various degrees of success. while i have been grateful for cross-platform functionality, I’ve always felt there was a something missing; and would constantly hit orocedural barriers barrier myself and the work. I recorded a little bit of one of those ‘print’ processes for applying patterns in my work. Skipping the emulsion process, color separations are recorded individually as 2-tone ‘screens’ to be applied to any work at any time in any scale. I found that this formulaic workflow gave me the perfect mix between flexibility and structure that i could basically access in seconds wherever I had a phone ready.
~a.d.