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Art by Michael Spengler

About the Work

My work develops image spaces, figures, and orders from drawing, photography, and language. At its center is not the technique, but the question of which forms of world, experience, and imagination crystallize in these images.

Position

I work with image-generating neural networks, not with “artificial intelligence.” What interests me is neither the myth of an autonomous machine nor the purely technical production of images, but the possibility of bringing forth visual worlds that could not exist without these processes. In my work, neural networks are not authors but tools within an artistic process.

Image Process

The works emerge from an experimental image process in which ideas from drawing, photography, and language are further developed using digital methods and image-generating neural networks. The source materials are transferred into new systems, shifted, and transformed so that autonomous image orders can arise. At the center is not the technology used, but the imaginary spaces and figures that emerge from it. The images understand themselves as autonomous artworks; their mode of creation is part of the process, not the goal.

Field of Practice

My work moves between different tensions: density and lightness, construction and openness, analysis of the present and counter-space. It unfolds equally in exhibitions, digital contexts, and on the website. I am interested in this field not as a fixed definition, but as an open terrain in which images, contexts, and modes of perception are continually shifting. For that reason, the practice does not follow a closed position, but a moving map.