P003 → Ebb && Flow
Ebb && Flow is a mixed media sculpture. After examples I had seen on the Internet, I modified an Argus 300 institutional slide projector into a video projector by hooking a computer video looper to a small delaminated LCD screen. I then created a short video using A.I. Algorithms to stylize video of water flowing in a canal close to where I live. I used the A.I. to style the video two ways, once with an image I took of cottonwood trees surrounding the Rio Grande river, and again with an image of circuity I had designed and built. I composited the results together so that the images kept the original motions of the water while oscillating back and forth with one another. I wanted to explore this moment in time where A.I. Algorithms are starting to interact with the personal, the institutional and the ecological. Ebb && Flow is an attempt to find a balancing point for these concepts.