Friday, 12 June 2020, 3:38 pmPress Release: Phantom House

Wellington photographer Grant Sheehan has used artificialneural network technology to create photographic images thatvisualise an artificial intelligence (AI) dreamscape andthen published them in a book made of metal.

Thismassive new Kiwi project is a fusion of art and science.Does Ava Dream? has many different elements but atthe heart of it are the questions: what might an AI dreamof, and what might those dreams look like?

Sheehanattempts to answer these questions using photography, film,music, and cutting-edge publishing technology. The artworksof Does Ava Dream? are created using high-res patternimages, combined with artificial neural network photographyplug-ins, to illustrate how an AI's dream fragments mightlook on output.

Continuing the theme of AI androbotics, Sheehan has printed these images onto metal tocreate a singular metal book singular both in the sensethat it is remarkable and in the sense that there is onlyone of it.

Those interested can view the metal book atPtaka gallery in Porirua. It is accompanied by plus largedisplay versions of the dream images, plus a short filmshowing these images in motion. The music for this shortfilm, like the images, have been co-created by Sheehan andartificial neural network technology.

For those whocan't make it to the exhibition, Sheehan has also created amore traditional paper book about the project as a whole,called The Making Of Does Ava Dream? This is agorgeous hardback coffee-table book that is published in twoeditions, one of which comes with a signed metallic paperprint of one of the dream images.

Someimages are available for republication uponenquiry

More information about Does Ava Dream?at https://doesavadream.click/

Watchthe trailer for the metal book Does Ava Dream? here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdNzxbrxXU

Findout more about the exhbition at Ptaka here: https://pataka.org.nz/whats/exhibitions/grant-sheehan-does-ava-dream/

Title: The Making of Does AvaDream?

Prices: $160.00 and $495.00

ISBN:9780994128560

Full colour landscape, 310 x 280mm, 70pages, June 2020

Binding: Hardcover with a dustjacket

Text: Satin low gloss

Images: Glosscoated

Each unit signed and numbered

Publisher& Distributor: Phantom HouseBooks

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