Drawing Between Worlds
(machine learning and the human hand)
Drawings that provide moments of misrecognition and yet unnerving beauty. Dennis McCart’s art practice reflects the ambiguity between our inherent connection to the natural world and the continual distancing from it.
Open Thursday 6 July 12 – 6pm
OPENING EVENT:
Friday 7 July 6pm - 9pm
Show continues:
Saturday 8th July 10am - 4pm
Sunday 9th July 10am – 4 pm
Artist Talk
Saturday 8 July 12am – 1pm
Dennis McCart continues to use a machine learning algorithm known as a generative adversarial network in his art practice. Feeding data sets into the algorithm of landscape scenic imagery sourced locally from south-east Queensland liminal landscapes to more pristine environments such as the Bunya Mountains. Each generation of the algorithm producing new complex landscapes based on the input data.
This process provides McCart with new insights and connections to grow and expand his art practice in mediums of drawing, painting and animations.
‘I have found this process challenges my preconceptions and artistic biases and opens up a new way to represent both the physical and digital environment’ – Dennis McCart
Drawing between worlds has elements of our local landscapes however a threshold has been crossed and we are far removed from our natural world.