7 Jun 2020

Does Ava Dream: Grant Sheehan at Pataka

From Standing Room Only, 1:47 pm on 7 June 2020

Google's state-of-the-art DeepDream AI programme was the inspiration for photographer Grant Sheehan who has added film-making to his list of abilities - but not your ordinary film.  Grant began exhibiting his work in 1983 and publishing books of photography in 2010, but this new exhibition, Does Ava Dream, is different. Grant uses technology to make the images and the film that wouldn't have been possible just months ago. He imagines what artificial consciousness could be like if it existed. Does Ava Dream shows how fast AI technology is moving as the human race creates a machine species to replace ourselves.