Born: 1986, Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian-American
Style: AI Art, Portraiture, Generative Art
Influences: Artificial intelligence, photography, identity
"I'm interested in using AI to explore the boundaries between reality and fiction."
Notable Artwork
Latentscapes #6, 2018 Collaborations with the Artificial Self
About Helena Sarin
Born: 1986, Moscow, Russia Nationality: Russian-American Style: AI Art, Portraiture, Generative Art Influences: Artificial intelligence, photography, identity Major Exhibitions: “Portraits of Imaginary People” (various), “The Real Thing” (2019), “AI Portraits” (2018) Quote: “I’m interested in using AI to explore the boundaries between reality and fiction.”
Notable Artwork: Latentscapes #6, 2018 Collaborations with the Artificial Self
Sarin uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create landscapes that do not exist. The AI generates realistic but entirely fictional places, based on its training on a vast dataset of real landscapes.
Significance
Collaborations with the Artificial Self raises questions about the nature of identity, representation, and the relationship between reality and simulation. The work explores the potential of AI to create convincing but ultimately artificial representations of place, blurring the lines between the real and the virtual.