2024 09 26 - 2024 11 09 / Vilnius Photography Gallery (Stiklių str. 4 / Didžioji str. 19)

Agnė Gintalaitė, NOT-MY NOT-PHOTOGRAPHY

Artistic Research on AI Generator Errors: Chasing Digital Truth

Agnė Gintalaitė does not create images. She creates things that exist only within images. She tries to convince the viewer not to trust the "photographic" image. But why should we trust it even less than before? Agnė Gintalaitė positions herself in a photography gallery with non-photography that looks like photography. Who is the author of this exhibition, and who is the actor? What is the object, and what is the subject — nature, human, or artificial intelligence? Who shows, and who watches? If you ask artificial intelligence for a "human," you get a man, and if you ask for a "woman," you get a man’s gaze. The artist's struggle with artificial intelligence in the field of image generation is a struggle with countless other people, their choices, the opinion of the majority, mass taste ("metastyle," according to Lev Manovich), social stereotypes, and the dominant understanding of what art is. Yet, as with any artwork, the most important is the one who makes decisions, who selects. Typically, images without mistakes are chosen, but in this process, Agnė seeks out mistakes, and those mistakes create a hybrid existence that transforms into a visual projection of inner emotional states, sensory ecological anxiety, and the disappearance of the boundary between human and animal. Agnė Gintalaitė chooses the mistake. The mistake becomes salvation.

Paulina Pukytė

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The works were created using a personal photo album and generative media.