Alfred T. Palmer: Conversion. Automobile industry. Preparing a huge automobile production machine for temporary storage, maintenance man cleans up the machine prior to conversion to war production. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan
Künstler/in
Francis Ruyter
(geb. 1968 in Washington, DC, USA)
Date2019
ClassificationsMalerei
MediumAcryl auf Leinwand
Dimensions130,3 × 100,1 × 3 cm
Object number28354
DescriptionFrancis Ruyter works with issues of style and recognition behind image-making, and connects this activity to social and technological forces driving contemporary experience and historical archiving. In 2008, he began replacing his own photographic source material with the Library of Congress’ FSA/OWI archive of depression era photographs, conceptually locating ‘the archive’ as subject matter.This painting is part of a series of works using images sourced through the search term ‘machine.’ Machine vision is becoming an increasing factor in our image processing systems, to the point that it becomes uniquely human to process the image into the fixed forms that we are familiar with. But what does it mean when a machine looks at a picture? We often assume that a picture is the representation of a form and not the other way around but at this point, this might be a dangerous assumption. Predictive technologies need human interventions, because they are written on top of the artificial intelligence that is our own human history, and there might be parts of that which we might not want to leave to the machines to bring with us into the future.
Text: Francis Ruyter
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erworben 1966
