Artificial Self-Portrait: Reckless by Danielle King

“We all look back at pictures of our teenage selves when visiting our parents. Danielle is expertfully using AI to rework some of these old portraits of hers, adding to them the filter we often have in our head that is driven by the emotions we felt at the time we took the pictures. In a time of AI experiments, this one feels very personal and intimate.”

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Artist Name: Danielle King

Artwork Title: Artificial Self-Portrait: Reckless

Series Size: 3

Creation Date: April 2023

Genre: AI Art

Platform: Verisart

Blockchain: Ethereum

Partner: Expanded.art, The NFT Gallery

Link to the NFT: https://verisart.com/works/danielle-king-cabb2997-4c3f-43ee-acc6-f5deadc830d2 

Description:  The ARTIFICIAL SELF-PORTRAIT series by Danielle King investigates the fallibility of memory, the duality of self, and the ways in which artificial intelligence may both jog and change our memories, resulting in a new type of self-portrait. Her source images are self-portraits taken more than 20 years ago using a manual camera, a tripod, and a timer. King's younger self is captured in moments of vulnerability and self-reflection, and the concept of multiple selves is explored through manipulating them with AI technology. The fluctuation of memory is a significant theme in the series—memories are never objective, constantly subject to reinterpretation and change. King explores this concept by using AI to change her own images, resulting in multiple versions of herself that exist simultaneously.

Exhibitions:

• RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY presented by EXPANDED.ART in collaboration with The NFT Gallery at their galleries in New York and London, 11 April – 13 May 2023. 19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. 

Links: 

• Expanded Art Exhibition Website: https://www.expanded.art/collections/recollection-ai-and-memory   

• Interview with Danielle King by Margaret Murphy: https://www.expanded.art/articles/danielle-king-in-conversation-with-margaret-murphy 

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