Genesis: The Creation of an Artificial Earth
2019 · generative video, StyleGAN, machine learning
An eight-minute video in which a world arises from a single-celled organism. The organism, generated by machine learning, moves through its own latent space — searching for a world similar to ours.
Unlike most StyleGAN videos that use smooth interpolations, this work shows the uncertainty of the trained model. The model moves both forward and backwards, as if looking back at the latent space it creates. An uncanny AI-generated voice accompanies it, telling a creation story — with one difference: everything is created by an AI.
The source: the first sentence of the Bible, converted into an image. From there, the StyleGAN takes over, searching for a landscape similar to its training data. The work shows the model struggling to turn a single-celled organism into a world that looks real.
