The Digital Vessel

As our lives become increasingly influenced by digital objects, experiences, and artificial intelligence, I began to question what this means for makers and how this affects our experience and relationship to physical objects. Can digital objects replace our need and desire to experience the physical ones?

For this project I utilized emerging Machine Learning methods to evaluate the series of vessels from the Weight Project. I was able to use a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to produce images of infinite new forms that fit within the series as though I created them myself. I was also able to distill the series down to a single vessel which reflects that totality of the Weight Project as a single form. This opens up more questions, and leads us to wonder if AI can ever reflect the emotional aspects that we put into making things.