Environments and Identity, Reconfigured
This project blossomed within a time of national and international hardship and readjustment which had me questioning my own identity and the identity of place. The many adaptations we had to make created a modified world that was constantly transitioning from one state to another. What does it mean for an environment to have identity nowadays and how have these identities changed?
This constant change made it hard for me to feel settled in any place at any time. I investigated how I perceived the places I call home and how those places could be reconfigured into new realities using the people and objects within them.
I have become fascinated by the world of machine learning and the developing technologies that control our lives and shape our futures. By using Generative Adversarial Networks we can now create generated imagery of people, places and things that don’t exist but can pass as real. My investigation into these technologies has allowed me to create altered portrayals of the places I call home.
Within, ‘Environments and Identity, Reconfigured’, I focused on investigating how the physical information that makes up our environments impacts the way we see and understand a certain place. I created digital habitats by using Generative Adversarial Networks to do so, focusing on elements I believe make up the places I call home, accompanied by the emotions I endure and the sounds I hear whilst within them.
I collected my own range of datasets and put them through Generative Adversarial Networks to create altered portrayals of different aspects of the environment that surrounded me.
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