計算可能なものと、身体によって生々しく経験されるもの。——そのあいだにあるものは何か。

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生成AIや大規模言語モデルの登場によって、世界を言語や数式で記述し、そこから新たな像や意味を生成できる領域は急速に広がっています。しかし、のどが渇いて水を飲むことや、木陰で風を感じることのなかには、どうしてもそこからこぼれ落ちる何かがあるように思います。本作は、私自身のプロフィール画像からAIが特徴を抽出し、その特徴を取り除いたあとのイメージを再構成した絵画です。像として選ばれなかった断片からでも、私たちはそこに意味や「その人らしさ」を感じ取ることができるのか。人間の認知や感覚を探る LATENTシリーズの新作として、本作では初めて私自身をモチーフにしました。

 

What can be computed, and what is viscerally experienced through the body. —What lies between the two?

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With the emergence of generative AI and large language models, the realm of what can be described through language and mathematics—and from which new images and meanings can be generated—is rapidly expanding. Yet in experiences such as drinking water when we are thirsty or feeling the wind beneath the shade of a tree, there seems to be something that inevitably escapes such description. This work is a painting reconstructed from an image produced after AI extracted certain features from my own profile photograph and those features were removed. Even from fragments that were not selected to form the image, can we still perceive meaning—or a sense of what makes someone who they are? As a new work in the LATENT series, which explores human perception and sensation, this is the first time I have used myself as the subject.