I’m excited to be participating in this year’s Portrait 2025 exhibition at the CICA Museum in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. My work Self Portrait with Deconvolutional Neural Network, pigment ink print, 20 × 16 in, was selected for the show. The work comments on our relationship with Artificial Intelligence. It was created by taking photographic self portraits in full profile. Using Adobe Illustrator, I traced these portraits using nodes, transposing the portrait profiles into input cells that link to a Deconvolutional Neural Network, which is a type of network that emulates a biological brain’s frontal lobe. The artwork uses a calm portrait profile and one depicting a scream. The two represent the dichotomy that exists within the human/AI relationship. The scream communicates the anxieties derived from our AI fears and ethical concerns associated with the technology’s capabilities. The calm face illustrates the symbiotic potential of a deeply integrated relationship with our new “digital companions”. I hope the work prompts reflection about the benefits and dangers of an AI future. This nascent relationship will inform a cultural ethos that will refashion our conception of the self and soul.

Featured Artists 참여 작가: BANAN AL-NASERY, 안광선 (An kwang sun), Nica Aquino, Rafia Baig, Marco Castelli, Izabella Demavlys, Leo Hainzl, Stephen Johnston, Monika Kalinowska, Anna Karvounari, 김용미, Evgeniya Korkunova, Oliviero Leonardi, Katie McLoughlin, Benjamin Murphy, Chris Ohlson, SANG A OH/오상아, Deborah Sfez, Marshall Sharpe, Yoland Skeete, Alexandr Sokolov, Elizabeth Wood, Rainer Würth, Yeon Gwon-mo/연권모, Yin Chua, 윤지영/Jiyoung Yun

“Portrait,” the international exhibition held every year since 2017.