“I am interested in the transitory state,” Huyghe has said, “in the in-between.” Blurring boundaries between human imagination, artificial intelligence, data, and physical matter, Mind’s Eye (L) resulted from a sequence of translations. First, the artist prompted a human collaborator to visualize certain objects or ideas while recording their brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Next, a generative adversarial network (GAN), a form of machine learning that draws from vast image databases, helped reconstruct this brain activity in three dimensions. Composed from synthetic and biological material, Mind’s Eye (L) slowly transforms and decays, which means the work is ever in flux.

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2025

Medium Materialized deep image reconstruction, aggregate of synthetic and biological material, micro-organisms, generative adversarial network
Dimensions 39 3/8 × 68 7/8 × 32 5/16" (100 × 175 × 82 cm)
Credit Gift of Harry Torczyner (by exchange)
Object number 172.2023
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe

French, born 1962 10 works online

Of what is unknown. I think that has somehow been a core of my work.” Pursuing interests in contingency and unpredictability, Huyghe creates art forms that incorporate living organisms, such as dogs, turtles, spiders, peacocks, ants, and bees.

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