Paper surgery

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

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.

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.

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

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

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