We have never been human
(2024 - ongoing)


Being in the Garden of Forking Paths
Salomé Chatriot, CROSSLUCID, Pola Sieverding

Group Show at Office Impart Berlin
17.07 – 23.08.2024


In the rejection of prescribed characterizations of a marketable and standardized reality, Crosslucid presents three aspects of the self as evolving representations of connection and expression. Assemblages of multidimensional realities reflect the progression of technologies used to capture and free the self from replication of the current system (...)

Breaking from direct construction, the beings presented in we have never been human (2024) materialize through CROSSLUCID’s unique engagement with model, data set, and prompt. 

Much of the conversation around AI today focuses on prompt generation as the ultimate form of artistic control. Relying on their models and code, CROSSLUCID deprioritizes the prompt thus elevating the model and data’s interpretations of the prompt over the artists’ linguistically articlated desires. Through these adjustments, the beings arrive with an emotional expressiveness previously missing from their photographic and GAN counterparts. 

Here, emotion may be considered the element emerging from the space left between prompt, data set, and model, that hyperdimension known as the latent space which is undefined and uncontrolled. This conception loops back to a critical underlying theme of Landscapes Between Eternities (2018) which serves as the dataset for we have never been human / alias (2024) and underscores the need to discover and cultivate new modes of connection between objects and subjects.

Imagery are spawns stemming from alias* created with alias studio.

*More about alias: an alias is a model trained and approved by the artist, based exclusively on licensed data sets. The alias studio founded by a team of AI scientists, entrepreneurs, legal experts and researchers, enables the creators to turn artistic expression into unique, certified generative AI models.

The studio invited CROSSLUCID to be among the first artists and ambassadors to experiment with the platform. 

Exepts from text by Elisabeth Sweet
CROSSLUCID Alias ‘We Have Never Been Human’ has been created specifically for Office Impart exhibition of Landscapes