Bones: Vanishing Of The Genuine by Bård Ionson

Sim Death: Vanishing Of The Genuine

Simulated Death in the artificial intelligence. Analog film photos of animal bones are trained into a Stable Diffusion model and new symbols of death emerge. This artificial output is imaged back onto analog film. "Bones: Vanishing of the Genuine" explores the beauty of bone and sky in life, death and simulation using analog film photography and AI as inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's bones in the New Mexico sky and Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality. The beauty of the bone floating in the sky with clouds and trees exposes the human perception of the world and the alterations of technology in the form of artificial intelligence. But these bones and the Ai model hold the promise of immortality, the bone outlasts death and perhaps we hope the simulation / simulacra of our creation will also be immortal. Limited edition prints will also be offered of this original NFT. It is of note that the models were not completely trained on film photos. About 2,000 photos were created using a Olympus Pen EE-3, Mini Diana, Nikon A8008 and iPhone 12. Around 1,500 were film and the rest were digital photos from the iPhone and the Dehancer app emulated Kodak Gold Film.
  • Aspect Ratio2:3
  • Dimensions4440 × 6660
  • Creation ProcessFilm Photos, LoRA Stable Diffusion, image to film
  • Ai TypeStable Diffusion
  • MaterialsKodak Gold, Fijifilm 200
  • StageSimulacra
  • ArtistBård Ionson
  • MediumStill Image
  • BoneDeer and Springbok Skulls








Token ID6
Chain
Ethereum
Contract
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ERC7160TL
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