London

EKO33

Latent Ink

Dec 9, 2024 - Jan 10, 2025

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Overview

I believe that art is a form of knowledge, deeply rooted in our cognitive structures. By engaging with machines, I'm exploring how our understanding shapes visual representation.

- EKO33

Latent Ink is a new body of work by artist Eko33 exploring the evolving dialogue between human creativity and machine collaboration. Spanning 500 unique artworks, the project integrates AI-trained datasets, p5.js generative systems, machine vision, and GLSL shaders to produce intricate pieces that challenge the boundaries of creativity. Seamlessly merging digital and physical mediums, Latent Ink highlights Eko33’s most advanced exploration yet into the intersection of human expression and artificial intelligence.
At its core, Latent Ink uses custom AI trained extensively on Eko33’s hand-drawn sketches and previous generative art series, ensuring each output reflects his distinctive visual language. These AI-generated canvases serve as foundations, which are then further developed through sophisticated generative algorithms and shaders. The process is iterative and dynamic; parameters evolve continuously as compositions achieve a finely tuned balance of complexity, precision, and spontaneity.
Central to Latent Ink's physical expression are 100 plotter-based artworks, transforming digital renderings into tangible, meticulously crafted pieces. Each work undergoes a rigorous process of colour selection, plotting sequence, speed variation, and algorithmic adjustments, embracing deliberate imperfections that amplify their uniqueness. The completed plots are then digitized in high resolution, creating a permanent digital archive of their physical presence.
Through this nuanced integration of machine and human intervention, Latent Ink challenges traditional perceptions of authorship, authenticity, and artistic control. Rather than simplifying or speeding up creation, Eko33 deliberately pushes technological tools to their limits, revealing unexpected beauty at the frontier of collaboration between human intent and machine capability.
As Eko33 explains, “With Latent Ink, I’m not interested in using technology to make things easier or faster; instead, I embrace technology to redefine what art can be. It’s through pushing both myself and the machines to their limits that unexpected beauty emerges.”
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