Uncanniness
The occasional experience of perceiving a familiar object or event as unsettling, eerie, or taboo (Broad 2020, 36-37), and it can be triggered in close interaction with AI-driven imitations of human physical or behavioral patterns

The artists’ explorations
are related to hybrid artefactual or glitchy aesthetics that can be achieved by emphasizing the abstract visual representations of data in the inner neural layers of DL architectures. By relying on our pareidolic perception, these visuals play with “humanizing” the opacity of DL processes.

→By exploiting the emotional impact of sound
JJFK Unsilenced (The Greatest Speech Never Made), commissioned by the Times (2018)

→Extracting human-like meaningfulness from machinic textual conversation
Scott Eaton’s Entangled II (2019)

→By alluding the intimate familiarity of human body
Jonas Eltes’ Lost in Computation (2017)

→AI artworks based on deep fakes
Mario Klingemann’s Alternative Face (2017)