Putin's Dream (signed)
Carl De Keyzer, Inge Braeckman
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Add to basketHardback, 192 pages, high quality reproductions, 297 x 235 mm, 180 images. First edition : 500 copies. Signed. As new. . In 1997, the Russian chess grandmaster Garri Kasparov lost to the chess computer Deep Blue and regarded his loss as a tremendous success of human ingenuity. That moment marked a historic turning point in the development of artificial intelligence, although Alan Turing and David Champernowne had already designed the Turochamp in 1948, the first algorithm that assigned a value to chess pieces and was supposed to determine the best possible chess move. AI has been closely intertwined with everyone?s existence for much longer than we realize. Just think of the smartphone, the search engines on the internet, the translation software, even washing machines use AI to increase efficiency, to save energy,? Certain AI applications detect fake news and disinformation. When Carl De Keyzer was about to travel to Russia in 2021 as a kind of revisiting of Homo Sovieticus (1989) and had received the official permission to do so, had already arranged his tickets, visa and guide, tensions quickly rose and tanks were suddenly amassed at the border. Fortunately, De Keyzer decided not to travel there after an attempt that had already been postponed due to Covid, because war broke out shortly after. With Putin?s Dream, Carl De Keyzer shows us in an innovative way that remains true to his oeuvre and his artistic personality, how photography and AI can form and become a symbiosis. Although AI is used and the photographer?s gaze is absorbed by the algorithmic data of the computer, De Keyzer remains the designer, the builder and the user of AI. He directs, decides, creates and makes choices based on the computer images, as befits an artist who works with available material and new technology. He not only feeds the machine with his own images (such as from Zona, 2003), with photographs of previous projects for which he traveled abroad, he ultimately adjusts AI by, for example, teaching the system to think asymmetrically. This is how AI learns from what De Keyzer decides and does as a photographer. The power and the essence of documentary photography, which De Keyzer has been associated with for decades and in which he is a grandmaster, is like hyperrealism: collecting and revealing (the truth of) the reality that the photographer was confronted with at a certain time in the given circumstances, without staging, as a kind of statement against fake news. But now the computer has become the camera as a journey through the virtual that Carl De Keyzer can make in his living room, so to speak, without having to travel and while he can visit locations repeatedly on the screen. Independent of time and circumstance, the image/imagination is created. A new reality emerges, while at the same time that reality reveals what may be unfolding in Putin?s head as a fictional story. War, power and politics (common threads in De Keyzer?s oeuvre) are propaganda and are directed, manipulated, and play with the (un)reality and eroticism. They are guilty of spreading incorrect messages. Even in war there is often a kind of unreality in all the horror. In Putin?s Dream, Carl De Keyzer takes us into the horror and unreality of this fairytale, aesthetic seductiveness, which often borders on perfection and contemporary cinematography of an image. We see, as it were, perfect people ? with white teeth, beautiful blond hair, blue eyes ? in flawlessly composed settings, as every dictator might want. We get a suggestion of how Putin wants to see the victory in and from Russia, how he dreams his Russia. Not only in the past and present, but also in the future. At the same time, De Keyzer?s critical, ironic view is omnipresent. There are not only the counterattack in Crimea, but also the gay community, the penthouses in Moscow, the private yachts and parties, the postcards of an idealized Kremlin,? Of a reality that simultaneously exists there and is nonetheless non-e.
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