March 24, 2021
Mike Tyka 2017 Edition size: 10 @mtyka https://www.miketyka.com Series: “Portraits of Imaginary People” https://www.electricartefacts.art/artist/mike-tyka @e_artefacts The series, titled "Portraits of Imaginary People" explores the latent space of human faces by training a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) to imagine and then depict portraits of people who don’t exist. The portraits are named after Russian troll accounts which were spreading disinformation during the 2016 elections. Exhibitions: 2018, Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul and 2019, LAABF, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles