SPANNUNGSBOGEN Spannungsbogen is a series of AI generated animations which are outputs of a GAN trained with my acrylic paintings. The project reflects on the lack of representation of non-western perspectives in GAN generated art.

2020 –– 2022

For this series, I hand painted 2,000 acrylic vignettes in an abstract style inspired the Fremen of Frank Herbert’s Dune. I then trained a GAN model with these paintings to output 10,000 new paintings that were then arranged following an indexing system that considers form, colour, and texture. Finally, I curated these outputs to feed into the creation of 80 animations of 1 minute each and 400 still images.

In Herbert’s words, spannungsbogen is ‘the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing’. This series simulates a conversation between me and a machine, a dialectical search for meaning between a thinking mind and a feeling one, and an ode to the invisible creatures in the cracks and crevasses of the world, patiently lying in wait for their turn to freely exist.

This body of work was commissioned by Quantum and displayed in their Los Angeles gallery.

LINDA DOUNIA

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