A two channel video installation comprising images and animated short loops where the artist collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images are produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without the artist’s interference.
In this series of works comprising several images and animated short loops, Ahmed El Shaer collaborates with artificial intelligence to explore questions about the afterlife and how a machine imagines the metaphysical and the transcendental. All images produced through generative technologies—the final artistic works—are fully created by machine intelligence without the artist’s interference. A radical experiment in what Islamic art could look like in the 21st century, away from stereotypical expectations and orientalist images. AI Heaven is alluring and terrifying. The images play with our perception, unsettling our expectations of form and meaning as we stare into these works, created by a nonhuman agent.
Artist Statement
As a final stage for the Artificial Intelligence Paradise project, I will complete the questions that I started with the project in March 2021. What if we asked our existential questions that trouble humanity with artificial intelligence as a neutral party? In the world after death, whatever heaven or hell, can artificial intelligence exploit this human weakness and create an imaginary paradise to control our capabilities? So at this point in the project, we’re going on a tour of motion pictures created by artificial intelligence.
