In the summer of 2021, six research group members trained six styleGAN models on the Athena Dataset, a series of artist-made glyphs. With similar intention – train the model to recreate the Athena Dataset – each researcher chose a training dataset and then selected their favorite ten images from the thousands their models generated. Team Picks features these favorites on film slides and exhibits them through a slide projector carousel.The installation contrasts desirable artistic authorship and undesirable scientific bias; it reveals how data selection is an expression of a point of view. Team Picks explores the tension between the materiality of the analog and the ephemerality of the digital. It confronts the destiny of any new technology – that it will eventually become an old, discarded one.
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