🧾 DETAILS
Artist: Ivona Tau
Year: 2022
Medium: AI-generated image with post-processed glitch interventions (NFT)
Dimensions: n/a
Category: AI Art / Generative Photography
Room: Room 5 — Algorithmic Narrative (Section: AI Image)
🧠 DESCRIPTION
This work is part of the Mythic Latent Glitches series, exploring the instability and indeterminacy of AI-generated imagery.
The image combines fluid, organic textures—resembling water, vegetation, or geological formations—with disruptive glitch-like overlays. These interruptions fragment the visual field, creating tension between coherence and breakdown.
The work results from a hybrid process combining GAN-generated imagery and human intervention.
🔍 SIGNIFICANCE
- Demonstrates AI-generated imagery combined with human manipulation
- Explores visual indeterminacy and perceptual ambiguity
- Introduces glitch as aesthetic and conceptual tool
- Reveals the limits of AI perception and representation
- Highlights the shift from generation → destabilization of generated images
✍️ INTERPRETATION
In this work, the image is no longer simply generated.
It is destabilized.
The process unfolds in layers:
- AI generation
- trained on photographic datasets
- produces organic, seemingly natural forms
- Human intervention
- introduces glitches
- disrupts visual continuity
- fragments perception
This reversal is crucial:
👉 AI creates the “natural”
👉 the human introduces the “artificial”
The distinction collapses.
The viewer is confronted with uncertainty:
- What is real?
- What is synthetic?
- What is broken?
The glitch is not a technical error.
It becomes:
👉 a cognitive event
A moment where perception fails to stabilize meaning.
The image exists in a state of:
👉 perceptual indeterminacy
Narrative no longer emerges from structure or probability alone.
It emerges from:
👉 confusion
🧩 POSITION IN THE COLLECTION
These works occupy a primary position within the collection, where image and language merge within generative systems.
They function as anchors, articulating a shift toward machine-mediated perception.
Within the collection, they are distinguished by their exploration of indeterminacy, instability, and co-creation.
The image is no longer produced—it emerges.
📚 PROVENANCE
NFT — Objkt platform