2023臺北美術獎 Taipei Art Award — 陳姿尹 Chen Zi Yin

Taipei Art Awards 2023
臺北美術獎 2023

Pixel Extension utilizes three rooms to present four works.

In the first room - “Looking at Celestial Bodies from the Earth,” Chen uses two different approaches to test Al's perception of thematically categorizing her personal preferences: one is to replace the actual moon in a photographic image taken at night time with the moon texture, and the other is to empty the pixel of the moon. In the second room - “Looking at the Earth from Space,” the artist adopts the form of software tutorial often used by self-media, and utilizes the astronomical image “Pale Blue Dot” as a sample. Using the Al functions of noise reduction and super resolution, the noise-like Earth is removed to extend a “pale blue dot in high quality,” which enables the artist to imagine how Al perceives her puniness. The third room serves as “a metaphor for the unpredictable future,” using a ladder built with exponential spanning until the steps eventually exceed the height that a person can climb. Meanwhile, the Al technology of text embedding is employed to convert Google search entries, which form an unconscious process of self-profiling, into algorithmically computed moving images that look like random noise-a metaphor for the artist's noise-like existence in the perception of the non-human subject.

像素延伸系列以三個空間依序呈現四件作品：

第一個空間「從地球仰望天體」，陳姿尹透過用月球貼圖素材取代夜景照片中的實拍月球，以及將月球畫素挖空的兩種不同方式，試探AI照片主題分類功能對於她個人喜好的感知；第二個空間「從宇宙回望地球」，藝術家仿擬自媒體的軟體教學影片形式，以天文照片「暗淡藍點」為示範素材，藉由AI降噪與AI超解析度功能，把原本幾近雜訊般的地球消除，並延伸出新像素的「高品質版暗淡藍點」，去想像AI對於她的渺小的感知；第三個空間則以跨距加速遞增、直至超越人類步伐可跨高度的爬梯「隱喻未來不可預見」，並運用AI文字嵌入技術，將如無意識自我人格側寫的Google搜尋紀錄，轉換成的看似隨機雜訊的動態演算影像，以此隱喻在非人類為主體的感知裡，我自己看起來就像是一團雜訊般的存在。