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The Béton Center of Visual Culture presents the exhibition «Total robotization» by the art group GrOM. The exhibition features eight works, including large-scale digital paintings (2.4 meters high and up to 4.5 meters wide). Unlike previous projects, these new works are created using artificial intelligence technology without the need for pre-existing photographs.
The art group GrOM’s works explore a wide range of themes, addressing both contemporary issues and profound philosophical questions. In this new project, the artists ask, «What makes a human human?». Today, in an era where high technology and artificial intelligence are increasingly being integrated into everyday life, this topic is particularly relevant.
Will the machine be able to reach a higher level of self-awareness, feel emotions, and answer complex philosophical questions about existence? Will humans be able to maintain their uniqueness in an environment of total robotization and cybernetization? Will they be able to feel alive in reality when communication shifts to the virtual space of digital fantasy? And, of course, will humanity retain its ability to create in an era of procedural generation, where the use of digital means of expression becomes commonplace?
The «Total robotization» project by the group GrOM provides answers to these questions, blurring the boundaries between the traditions of classical easel painting and visual abstraction through the use of modern technologies for computer visualization, color correction, and image printing. In this project, the artists draw on the legacy of world art masterpieces as sources of recognizable compositional solutions and stylistic features, infusing them with futuristic content and contemporary technological attributes. Classic stories become the prototypes of images created using 3D modeling and digital post-processing, where the shapes of objects and their textures are formed by neural network tools. Thus, the centuries-old experience of subjective artistic traditions is transferred to the era of digital visual arts, where the mathematical patterns of algorithms redefine the role of emotional spontaneity in the creative process.
In this synthesis of the old and the new, the past and the future, the linear and the multidimensional, the viewer is invited to reflect on the evolving concept of meaning in an environment where high-tech alternatives to traditional forms of activity are being steadily introduced. Can a work of digital art be both naturalistic in appearance, didactic in content, and abstract in style? Is it possible to use future computer technologies to capture the nuances of meaning found not only in compositions but also in the stylistic choices of past works? Finally, what effect does the use of neural network tools have on the choice of the content of works of art and their subsequent interpretation by the viewer? After all, the freedom to choose an independent answer to these questions is not only a privilege of the thinking subject, but also one of the characteristics that distinguish between the inevitably hesitant human being and the machines he creates, which have no doubts.
The Béton Center of Visual Culture presents the exhibition «Total robotization» by the art group GrOM. The exhibition features eight works, including large-scale digital paintings (2.4 meters high and up to 4.5 meters wide). Unlike previous projects, these new works are created using artificial intelligence technology without the need for pre-existing photographs.
The art group GrOM’s works explore a wide range of themes, addressing both contemporary issues and profound philosophical questions. In this new project, the artists ask, «What makes a human human?». Today, in an era where high technology and artificial intelligence are increasingly being integrated into everyday life, this topic is particularly relevant.
Will the machine be able to reach a higher level of self-awareness, feel emotions, and answer complex philosophical questions about existence? Will humans be able to maintain their uniqueness in an environment of total robotization and cybernetization? Will they be able to feel alive in reality when communication shifts to the virtual space of digital fantasy? And, of course, will humanity retain its ability to create in an era of procedural generation, where the use of digital means of expression becomes commonplace?
The «Total robotization» project by the group GrOM provides answers to these questions, blurring the boundaries between the traditions of classical easel painting and visual abstraction through the use of modern technologies for computer visualization, color correction, and image printing. In this project, the artists draw on the legacy of world art masterpieces as sources of recognizable compositional solutions and stylistic features, infusing them with futuristic content and contemporary technological attributes. Classic stories become the prototypes of images created using 3D modeling and digital post-processing, where the shapes of objects and their textures are formed by neural network tools. Thus, the centuries-old experience of subjective artistic traditions is transferred to the era of digital visual arts, where the mathematical patterns of algorithms redefine the role of emotional spontaneity in the creative process.
In this synthesis of the old and the new, the past and the future, the linear and the multidimensional, the viewer is invited to reflect on the evolving concept of meaning in an environment where high-tech alternatives to traditional forms of activity are being steadily introduced. Can a work of digital art be both naturalistic in appearance, didactic in content, and abstract in style? Is it possible to use future computer technologies to capture the nuances of meaning found not only in compositions but also in the stylistic choices of past works? Finally, what effect does the use of neural network tools have on the choice of the content of works of art and their subsequent interpretation by the viewer? After all, the freedom to choose an independent answer to these questions is not only a privilege of the thinking subject, but also one of the characteristics that distinguish between the inevitably hesitant human being and the machines he creates, which have no doubts.
