Fabian Offert
Installation
2nd floor
Modern Art Latent Space is an interactive installation based on a generative adversarial network (StyleGAN) trained on approximately 50,000 images from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, collection. The network has picked up a wealth of features typical of modern art: photographs, sketches, abstract expressionist works, and cultural artifacts (such as album covers) all coexist in the same latent space. Interpolating between points in this space enables the production of novel, hybrid works of art that nevertheless have all the attributes of a MoMA-worthy piece. In the installation, the latent space of the network is traversed in real time, based on the movement of visitors in the immediate vicinity of the work.