In “Marginados”, visual artist Mateus Morbeck utilizes artificial intelligence to create digital portraits of Brazilian exiles from 1966 to 1985.
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The Foreign Information Center – CIEX, an ultra-secret spy agency formed by diplomats and infiltrated agents, used physical descriptions of exiled people to create images of those whose lives were fragmented and their destinies interrupted in the search for freedom amidst uncertainty.
By blending memory and fiction, human and technology, artificial intelligence creates portraits that transcend objective fact and expand understanding. In a journey of rescue and confrontation, the imagined faces brave oblivion to preserve the hushed voices.
Brazilian architect and visual artist Mateus Morbeck. His work includes photography and computational algorithm-based generative art. Its procedural and methodological exploration is centered on picture perception relationships and uses ancient and new technology to tension layers and meanings.