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Landscapes, 2022-2023

by Robbie Barrat

Plexiglass print of custom trained networks and other processing scripts

7 x 10 5/8 inches

$6,500.00

Barrat is fascinated by landscape and has produced a number of series working with this motif since 2018. Scraping tens of thousands of images of landscape oil paintings from WikiArt and implementing these with a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network), a neural network was trained to create new landscapes. These works from 2022–23 eschew the realistic painterly quality that marked Barrat’s earlier series, and instead feature a mesh of fractal planes which encase and disrupt the image. Like thousands of open tiles on a desktop, the aesthetic speaks of glitches and noise, rather than idyllic views, and connects to the pioneering work of net-art group JODI who emerged in the 1990s.

About Robbie Barrat

Robbie Barrat (b.1999) is a Dublin-born, West Virginia-raised artist, who uses machine learning and GANs, to explore fashion, architecture, and art history, focusing on AI's interpretation of data. Barrat's art, which views AI as both a medium and a tool, has been exhibited internationally, including at the Musée de la Mode Hasselt, Ars Electronica, System Failure in San Francisco, ArtJaws in New York, and the Late Tate during the Nam June Paik show. His debut show, Infinite Skulls, was a collaboration with French painter Ronan Barrot at Avant Galerie Vossen in 2019. Initially focused on AI as both tool and subject, his recent work integrates AI into a broader creative process.
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