The Art of Digital
A Garden Of Men: a collaboration between Alya Alqarni and Sara Khalid.
A Garden of Men is an AI-generated artwork that raises the question of machine perception of different cultures. It addresses the issue of cultural exclusiveness and biases of machine learning through a practical critique of culturally biased datasets. These datasets are, in analogy, the modern archeological record of material culture, through which we perceive—contemporary— societies.
A Garden Of Men: a collaboration between Alya Alqarni and Sara Khalid.
The concept of the piece is to layer; either to conceal or to expose. The process of making the piece consists of three main layers: the original image, the texture, and finally the model treatment. Conceptually, that layering could also
be found in the composition of the seated men, how that manifests both dystopic and cynical impressions especially with using DeepDream, all of which created a pseudoarchival piece of the history of the “other.”
