PARADISE NOW (Vol1)
Media: video, sound
Multi format: screens or projection. mobile. 1920 x 1080 pixels. Colour 25 FPS. Print editions. Paint on canvas.
Year: 2022-2024
Duration: Various
Languages: English
PARADISE NOW (Vol1) t teaser:
PARADISE NOW is an umbrella title for a body of works exploring the convergence of AI-generated imagery, animation, and text. Produced through a hybrid process combining generative adversarial networks (GANs), 3D software, and post-production techniques, the project unfolds as abstract animated ambient works and still images. Across these formats, Paradise Now engages with the aesthetics of the sublime and the emergence of a speculative, post-natural landscape.
The project originated from an incidental daily ritual: coffee stains collected on a plate beneath an espresso machine. Over time, the droplets formed images resembling landscapes, eruptions, and distant planetary terrains—suggestive of odysseys, myths, and fictional heroic narratives. These stains were photographed and introduced into a GAN system, where they were processed, expanded, and recomposed into new visual data.
A recurring figure appears within these environments: a small holographic nomad named Novery1 (a fusion of “no one” and “everyone”). Functioning simultaneously as protagonist, avatar, and witness, Novery1 is the sole constant within continuously morphing worlds, anchoring human presence within otherwise unstable, synthetic terrains.
In a second, commission-based phase of the project, selected freeze-frames from Paradise Now are sent to artists in Mumbai and New Delhi to be reinterpreted as hand-painted oil works. Executed on custom-sized canvases in the visual tradition of Bollywood cinema billboards, these paintings reverse the original trajectory of the images: from accidental organic matter, through AI synthesis and digital abstraction, back into a labor-intensive, physical medium.
This cyclical translation—fluid to algorithm, algorithm to image, image to painting—creates a loop between digital and material processes, across cultures, geographies, and modes of authorship. Paradise Now ultimately operates as a distributed system of image-making, where authorship, nature, and imagination are continuously displaced and reassembled.
Below appearing as a mapping instant at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre Tel Aviv: