Pareidolia Study no. 2

 

This is the second of a series of experiments on the psychological phenomenon called pareidolia.

According to Wiki:

Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). Common examples include perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations; seeing faces in inanimate objects.

I have been fascinated with this phenomenon for most my life having incorporated it in my art since the early 1980's. Initially, I experimented with creating textures with various photographic processes and pigments on various materials to achieve interesting patterns that could be imagined into interesting works of art. Many of these textures I made on a frosted acetate film and stored in 5x7 negative sleeves.

This film was initiated with a texture I made in 1993.

Starting with an analog created texture and moving both forward and reverse in the timeline: The AI generative model was not prompted in any fashion. It was left to decide what the image is and what it should do. Each end frame still was taken from a 5 sec. clip as and fed back to the AI to continue. Once the exercise was completed the film's start is the end keyframe of the reverse segment. This experiment allows for an in depth look at how AI recognizes patterns and how AI implies motion with the pattern.