Scale of Production # 1: Urban Speculation
Dataism, a term coined by David Brooks has recently been expound by Yuval Noah Harari as an emerging political & theological ideology where production of information is a hegemonic artifact. Viewed from the optical lens of technology, the canvas of urbanity rendered through generative patterns. Channeling the fundamental MO of AI: “imitation”!
Training vast amounts of data documenting artificial and natural morphologies of the world. Extrapolating from meta-understanding of the physical world, autonomously deducting formal biases, and envisioning landscapes, also allows for unprecedented human-machine collaboration creating novel design agendas.
Cities seen from the eyes of Machines | socio-economic, demographic, architectural, urbanistic traits DCGAN
Surveillance as GAN Training Data | drone footage, study morphologies
Synthetic City Panorama | stitched panorama reminiscent of a drone footage
Cultural Influences through Style Transfer