NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release

Spring 2022

Photographs the Hyperspace Task Force can neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of, by Makoto Brown

Washington Square Park immediately prior to forestation event.
Washington Square Park during forestation event. Initial effects can be seen on victims.
Washington Square Park following forestation event.
Washington Square Village following forestation event.
Manhattan after forestation event, taken using a low-res camera.
Upscaled image of
Sample of wood from forestation.
The arch of Washington Square Park B, captured using a low-res camera.
Photograph of Washington Square Park C, taken using a low-res camera.
Photograph of in Washington Square Park C, taken using a low-res camera.
Context unknown. Presumably a low-res image of the arch in Washington Square Park D.
Photograph of Manhattan B.
Village in Massachusetts B.
The location of the same village in Massachusetts C.
Earhurst Mountains in Wyoming D.
The city of Anglican in Australia (the name of a state in United States B).
The same city in Australia C.
Large fire in the town(?) of Green Springs, New Jersey B. Cause unknown.
Earth C. Context unknown. Language shown is currently presumed to be Greek.
A park in , D. The park does not exist in A, B, or C.

Project Notes

The idea “route” for this project looks sort of like this:

Deciding to focus on virtual photographs that would be helpful in a larger project -> initially deciding to make a collage of park photographs to create a park that doesn’t exist, then deciding it’s too hard -> considering AI -> asking myself how I would create content for a web horror series without visiting the locations involved -> Googling AI in image manipulation -> using NVIDIA GauGAN2 and Looking Glass v1.1 to create and edit unreal photographs.

The captions are just whatever I was thinking about when I was doing this.

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