An image classifier trying to name everything it sees.
An image classifier, one of the most common applications of artificial neural networks, analyzes frames from a camera fixed over the monitor to name everything it sees.
The names are articulated and displayed on the screen using the Nug-Soth alphabet, which is featured in the Necronomicon, a textbook of magic that appears in stories by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paweł Janicki draws mainly on the achievements of music, contemporary and media art, and posthumanist practice – but constructs different forms. He engages a broad spectrum of techniques, approaches, and protocols: he creates works using synthetic senses, programming techniques – including in their modern, cognitive incarnation – and space and materials engineering elements. Historical and current contexts play an essential role in Janicki’s work – particularly the perceived history of art and what might be called the history of thinking.
He is affiliated with the WRO Art Center, where he is a curatorial board member, and presented the solo exhibition Point Nemo in 2020. He curated the Polish Pavilion at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale. His recent affiliations include institutions such as Funken Academy, Fraunhofer IWU, and the pan-European ArtCast4D/AAASeed project. In 2024, he curated the Polish Pavilion at the Gwangju 2024 Biennale in South Korea. His institutional collaborations and presentations include NASA (USA), Ars Electronica (Austria), Transmediale (Germany), Sapporo International Art Festival (Japan), and Khoj (India). The Society of Algorithm lists his network performances among the key events in developing this art genre.
