ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE - PRIX

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Computer Animation Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 2020

Recursive Truth

Rachel Rossin

Recursive Truth is a video work based on generative AI and programming imaging research; using video game mods, OPENCV (facial recognition and motion tracking libraries), and deep fakes to explore loss, memory, and truth as a medium. Bugs created inside the work expose the fragility of memory and ultimately either destroy the video game or function only as visual gags.
Recursive Truth is a looping video that runs at 2:55, however, the piece is meant to play on loop--every cycle tends to reveal new connections between the collaged material. The work addresses the increasing subjectivity of truth and the codebases that are shaping this new reality. The primary codebase featured is OpenCV--the most commonly used language in the infrastructure of surveillance capitalism. Visualizations of AI in the form of Deepfakes with Optical Flow represent these infrastructures on a recursive loop. Recursion is a principle in the codebase that is short-hand for meta or self-referential --which is the structure of the piece: by representing the very code bases that the work is addressing, the work is a structured recursive loop where new connections are made in viewing the piece.

Links: rossin.co, https://vimeo.com/342070900

Rachel Rossin (US) is a painter and programmer whose work explores entropy, embodiment, the ubiquity of technology and its effect on our psychology. Over the last four years, she has gained recognition for a series of astonishing exhibitions that blend oil painting, sculpture, and virtual reality. Rossin has shown her work at Sundance New Frontiers, The Zabludowicz Collection in London, The New Museum in New York City, K11 in Shanghai, Kiasma in Helsinki, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville and The Akron Art Museum. Rossin was a 2015 fellow at the New Museum's incubator in virtual reality research, and was on the Forbes 30 under 30 2017 for visual art.