Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Nadine Alexeev

DeepFake

Remake me, regenerate me. How does the machine see me?

“These faces were created by regenerating an image of my own face with an empty prompt. Left to its artificial logic, trained on the accumulated weight of our collective gaze; it returned a stranger. It returned not an enhancement, but a verdict. Exposing the deeply rooted ideals of beauty extracted from everything we have ever uploaded, liked, shared, desired. These 'women' were born out of the machine learning and acting freely, attempting to create ‘the perfect woman’ from the data we have personally provided. I have been remade in its image.”