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Paper surgery

This early 2000 work by Stephen J Shanabrook, in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva, feels like GenAI artifacts reproduced in analog form.

Scan of a folded fashion magazine page displaying the portrait of a red hair woman. The folds are messing with the facial features displacing eyes, nose and mouth in a barely recognizable face.

These crumbled magazine pages, from the “paper surgeries” series, resembles strangely the mishaps and uncanny human figures that early versions of “AI” image generators produced at the beginning.

Scan of a folded fashion magazine page displaying the portrait of a blond hair person looking to the left. The folds are messing with the facial features hiding the eyes, nose and mouth are smashed together. A very large ear is visible.

And of course this is not what inspired the artist. That would be anachronic statement since the likes of Midjourney or Dall-e only started in 2022 and the technology that generated these kind of image artifacts only emerged in 2014 with GANs.

Scan of a folded fashion magazine page displaying the portrait of a dark hair person looking to the right The folds are messing with the facial features hiding the eyes, smashing the nose and mouth, making the teeth prominent.

Really love how some of these turned trash origami into digital future commentary.

Scan of a folded fashion magazine page displaying the chest and head of man The folds are messing with the facial and body features hiding the right eyes, smashing the nose and mouth, making the face having a threatening stare.

Images taken from the artist’s portfolio page on web.archive.org

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