MADE IN CYLAND

The project’s objective is to recreate missing fragments of the friezes of Classical Antiquity and Hellenism by way of algorithmic analysis and technology of machine learning. The ML-based algorithm is taught to fill voids in the images of Pergamon Altar. Three dimensional models out of transparent polymers, created on the basis of given images, are printed out from a 3D printer and integrated into the altar’s gypsum copy. The project juxtaposes the aesthetics of ancient art and generative method as well as studies the process of creating a work in concert with artificial intelligence and the dependence of artistic production on the current state of technology, questioning the idea of authorship in its conventional meaning.