The Solaris project
2025
โThe Solaris projectโ is an artistic experiment that explores the limits of perception, imagination and technology, drawing inspiration from Stanislaw Lem's visionary 1961 novel.
'The starting point is the parallel between the thinking ocean from Stanislaw Lem's novel โSolarisโ and the possibilities and limitations of machine learning. Lem depicts the planet Solaris as an entity capable of extracting images from human minds and processing them freely, but incapable of interpreting them rationally. ML's image-creating tools operate similarly: they grab fragments of our iconosphere and process them without understanding, often in ways that are creative and fascinating, but also enigmatic and disturbing.'
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(conceptual, surrealism)
(photography + ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Cotton Night
2024
What did I see that night so fair, with horizons stretching wide?
Bright enough to touch the sky, yet darkness by my side.
A twilight dance of shadowed light, my eyes could scarce believe,
Was it a dream within my sight, or truths the night conceived?
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Part of the "Digital Haiku", "Softness" series.
(conceptual, surreal abstraction)
(photography + ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Plushie
2024
Do you reflect on your old age, as twilight starts to blend?
Do you reminisce on childhood, the toys that were your friends?
Do you remember what it was like, to play with them each day?
What would you do in paradise, if you were there today?
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(conceptual, surrealism)
(ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Diet
2024
You are what you eat.
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Part of the "Digital Haiku", "Softness" series.
(conceptual, surrealism, still live)
(ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Head-in-the-clouds
2023
I have my head in the clouds
And I donโt know what to do
Is it a dream or an escape?
Or is it something true?
But the sun is burning bright
And the sand is in my eyes
I have to face the truth and fight
And leave behind the lies
I have my head in the clouds
But I canโt stay there forever
Is it a dream or an escape?
And is it now or never?
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(surreal abstraction)
(photography + ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Tender Lust
2023
In the deep and dark forest
There are secrets to be found
Among the mosses and ferns
There is life all around
The moist and tiny creatures
They crawl and hop and fly
They have their own adventures
Beneath the starry sky
But there is also something else
That stirs the forest air
A tender lust that fills the hearts
Of those who wander there
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(surrealism)
(ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Reuniting The Soul With The Body
2022
How did this happen that our souls lost their connection to our bodies? Why do we remain separated and lost like a creature pieced together by Frankenstein - intended to be superhuman, in practice unhappy and non-functional? Where does our happiness accumulate now, and how can our pain be released, without which we only hurt ourselves and others? How can we fix it?
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(conceptual, surrealism)
(ML hallucinations + algorithmic graphics)
Post-sensuality
2022
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do humans dream of electric lovers? Will robots feel desire?
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Part of the "Digital Haiku" series.
(conceptual, surreal abstraction)
(VQGAN-CLIP hallucinations)
Square Transformations
2013
The cubists had a great flair
For painting things that werenโt there
They knew all along
That a square was so strong
That it could make up a whole chair
(abstraction)
(generative graphics)
The City's Dream
2012
I dreamed of a city that sleeps. This city dreams of cities, just as we dream of people.
I tried to catch the cityโs dreams.
(conceptual, abstraction)
(generative graphics)