Artist Statement

Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15

2023
Algorithmic video installation
Screen: 0.95 x 1.70 m (with computer)
Production credit for video software: Claude Micheli
Courtesy of the artist and Adagp, Paris.

Merging and confronting AI generated human faces with real ones. For this installation, Pascal Dombis collected thousands of images of faces, half belonging to real humans, the other half being generated by artificial intelligence. From this base of faces, he develops an algorithmic distribution system which mixes these images randomly by juxtaposing them, blending them into one another, hybridizing them, while producing flickers and glitches. This infinite video stream, without any beginning or any end, is projected on 3 vertical screens and questions the relationship between man and machine.
[Translated from french by Google Translate]

https://dombis.com/works/i-am-not-a-robot

• Pascal Dombis (born 1965) lives & works in Paris, France. He is a digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce excessive repetition of simple processes. He earned an engineering degree from the Insa University in Lyon. In 1987, he spent one year at Tufts University where he attended computer art classes at Boston Museum School and began to use computers and algorithms in his art. From 1994 to 2000, he participated in the fractalist exhibitions that were curated by the art critics Susan Conde and Henri-François Debailleux that used fractal theory to project a new paradigm for art. In 1993, Dombis was awarded an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Linz and in 2003 he received a Canon digital award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Dombis   https://dombis.com/bio