Tropical Camouflage
We fed an GAN algorithm thousands of tourist photographs and created a camouflage suit,
deployable in the same vacation destination said photos were taken in.
The art of deceiving has gained a new tool with machine learning and its ability to recognize and recreate patterns.
But when used covertly dangers lurk: ‘Mass surveillance or social media manipulation‘ are just a few of the negative headlines.
To draw attention to these risks, the project presents a real application scenario.
An indoor water park in the countryside of Germany is used as a test environment.
It features an ideal recreation of the perfectly imagined vacation paradise - a fake of an phantasmal image created by advertisements and staged beauty shots.
Here, Jean Beaudrillard’s philosophical treatise ‚Simulacres et Simulation‘ seems more existent than ever.
A sort of hyperreal copy were the original is unable to be located.
(2020)
