FELIX
VON DALLWITZ

MACHINES CANNOT DREAM, EVEN IN SLEEP MODE

Felix von Dallwitz has created a body of work that has examined the role of painting and its relevance in today's image saturated digital world. Through the coalescence of Artificial Intelligence and painting, this exhibition imagines new utopias that exist between speculation and reality, exploring the automation of aesthetics and the implementation of the algorithm within a creative practice.

Von Dallwitz’s research-led practice is an ongoing investigation into the coalescence of artificial intelligence and painting. His work situates itself at the intersection of oil painting and the aesthetics of text to image AI generated compositions, flattening the technological timeline of analogue practice and the rapid proliferation of the algorithm. Creating a distorted artificial hyper reality through the polarised combination of the automated aesthetics of AI and painting.

Through reflective surfaces, von Dallwitz’s paintings are an attempt at AI self representation, borrowing from surrealist tropes and employing science fiction's ability to be a reflection on reality as well as of it. Dallwitz views his engagement with AI through a collaborative lens, where a hybridised artist-as-cyborg forms. The algorithm operates autonomously, responding to his prompts in an unpredictable and unique way. Through this dynamic a collaboration is formed that bridges the human/technological gap of consciousness.

Words by Felix von Dallwitz