LALE WILLAN

I paint mashups of future visions of other artists. I also let some artists appear as characters in my paintings. With this network painting I copy artificial intelligence and try to paint like it. The basic principles of AI art are seriality, mutation, morphing, imitation, emulation and simulation. I use glitchy 3D scans of the artists, images of their artworks and “bad” interpretations of AI image generators that still make a lot of “mistakes” as templates and mix everything together. During the painting process, however, everything changes and goes in a surprising, new direction for me. In a digital age, the value of the original and the unique is lost, and other forms of appropriation such as ripping, remakes and remixes dominate instead. I mention all artists in my titles, trying to bring the idea of ​​open source to the visual arts. With AI images we are at a turning point in art and I find that inspiring and exciting. This turning point may also mean the end of the patriarchal view of a genius cult and artist ego. So in a way I paint collective paintings alone.