The Late Memories of the Algorithm, the Beauty of Forgetting

The Late Memories of the Algorithm, the Beauty of Forgetting liberates decaying states of memory through algorithmic recollection. In this work, Ivona Tau pulls from previous AI and GAN models that have been trained on a dataset of several thousand photographs from the artist's personal archive. Tau positions this vast scale of data as algorithmic memory, a digital comprehension of a lifetime's worth of experiences. The addition of a model trained on a "destructed" dataset, created programmatically by applying digital manipulations to photographs, symbolizes the fleeting sense and eventual decay of remembrance. The beauty of this ephemeral sentiment is captured and immortalized as a representation that spans across the artist’s personal experiences.