Explosions
Frame by frame 4k ai remaster of a lost work from 2011
90-minute video installation, projector, USB Drive, media player, mattress, plastic cover, bed frame, Speakers and hardware.
125 x 60 x 47 cm | 2024
DOCUMENTATION PHOTOGRAPHY © Adriaan Hauwaert
I made a piece in 2011 called explosions and lost the original files.
found a horribly compressed copy on an old private YouTube account.
manually upscaled and re-imagined over 2000 frames of video to remaster the video.
at 30 images a second the video is filled with flashes of detail and subliminal imagery.
It seems impossible to get this detail to show up in a web streaming video.
Please view below.
“Explosions (2024) takes us into the home environment. The film is a visual and auditory overload, a 90-minute video installation set against a bombastic soundtrack that captures the American fascination with violence and conflict, inspired by the desensitisation following 9/11 and its cultural by-products. Positioned against a bare, sealed mattress, it comments on the juxtaposition of violence and intimacy in American life, portraying a culture seemingly more at ease with aggression than affection.
Explosions is a reconstruction of a 2011 work, one of the artist’s first experiments with the software ‘After Effects’. Deciding to analysis each frame using an AI tool, the artist was able to generate new images, while also using the original video frames as a second input that would control the composition of the newly generated images. With 30 images to one second of video, individually worked by the artist, a subliminal effect emerges, with flashes of imagery transitioning from heavenly clouds to burning buildings to barbecue chicken, representing extensive research of uncensored AI imaging models.”
Exhibition History
2024
IMPACT
Super Dakota, Brussels