Circular Repetition #3, 2021
by Orkhan Mammadov
New Media Art
1080 x 1920 px
Ed. 1/3
About the artist
Orkhan Mammadov is pioneering and one of the few innovative media artists from Azerbaijan + since their exhibition with YARAT in 2013; who have also emerged on the international scene since representing his home country in the Venice Biennial in 2019. Currently based in Istanbul, meanwhile travelling worldwide searching for new expressiveness in the post-pandemic world. He mixes eastern heritage representation, popular aesthetics, references to surrealism, and documentary conventions in his AI (artificial intelligence) & ML (machine learning) based installations.
His works reflect on the rapid and chaotic changes occurring in technology in the global context with rethinking Middle Eastern cultural heritage.
Mammadov’s works have been exhibited at several international biennales and triennials, including Moscow International Contemporary Art Biennale in Moscow, Russia (2019) and Venice Biennale de Arte in Venice, Italy (2019), Nasimi Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan (2018), Gamma Festival in ST. Petersburg, Russia (2018), IF Istanbul International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey (2017), ACCU Festival in Prague, Czech Republic (2017), Dave Festival in Dresden, Germany (2017).
About the Artwork
World's first AI Generated Mediterranean Pattern installation - Project premiered in Venice Contemporary Art Biennale 2019
Circular Repetition employs data consisting of traditional ornaments. Processed and trained using the latest state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. A neural network computing system that processed tens of thousands of archived images from museums and libraries. It creates new unlimited combinations based on their similarities. "Circular Repetition" creates imaginary patterns that didn’t exist so far.
By combining the data painting technique patterns were brought to life. More than 15,000 patterns, symbols, and shapes were collected by artist & processed by artificial intelligence. AI generates new concepts and meanings. It blurs the boundaries between reality and the fake. These actions further prove cultural development, as non-human intelligence replaces traditional craft tools.
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