FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE is a project based on StyleGAN and object recognition algorithms applied to the ritual of Turkish coffee mug reading. A collection of these pictures composed the initial database out of which new images have been generated. 15000 real-life and generated images are then morphing into an animation and used to train the algorithm to recognize objects out of these random shapes created by the coffee stains and generated noise. The algorithm performs this continuous object recognition process in real time—reading the mug—while producing new visual narratives in a loop.
In this process the relation has been established between false positives in computer vision and psychological phenomena of pareidolia and apophenia. The interplay between prediction as a false positive and prophecy as apophenia - the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated things - does not only focus on absurdity but on possibilities of creative interpretation when trying to understand the technical processes behind machine intelligence.
Kristina Tica (*1995, Belgrade) completed her BA Painting, University of Fine Arts and MA Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and is currently studying at the University of Art and Design Linz, MA Interface Cultures. She participated in several study programs within Central Saint Martins, UAL and Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Her body of work is focused on the examination of forms and semiotic keys of visual languages in different media. She works across various media such as painting, video installation and generative new media art. Her works have been exhibited at festivals such as The Wrong, Ars Electronica Festival, Speculum Artium. She is the recipient of the art+science AI Lab National Selection Award (Serbia) 2020. Currently lives and works in Linz.
Interface Cultures Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival 2021
