Maybe an image
The idea of being able to deceive a computer reassures me. The mistakes made by the frightening yet fascinating artificial intelligence are proof that the digital world has not yet completely taken control over us. The colorful geometric shapes visible in my images represent these flaws.
This series consists of photographs taken during my travels in the mountains, here in the Alps. Whether from afar or up close, in summer or winter, I roam this vast territory in search of images where nature meets humankind or its imprint.
My photographs are notably visible on my Instagram, where I discovered that they are automatically analyzed. The platform can identify what they contain through a section of the HTML code that translates images into text. It provides an interpretation: "May be an image of..." followed by what it thinks it recognizes in the picture. I wanted to know what the computer perceived in each of my photos, and a new landscape opened up to me.
As I wandered through this code, searching for the AI’s interpretation of my images, these geometric shapes emerged. Coding enthusiasts will recognize their meaning, but to me, they conveyed a message. These abstract figures represented what I had been trying to find within the vastness of this fabricated language: the bug, the glitch, what escapes computation.