Aurèce Vettier: Humans and Machines Beyond Collaboration

Explorations of AI Art — Episode 14

Beth Jochim, Director and Co-Founder at Cueva Gallery. Twitter: @_bblurred

“I aim for pushing boundaries and creating dialog between sometimes distant domains.” — Paul Mouginot

[Fig.1] Example of GAN-generated imaginary herbariums that Aurèce Vettier uses as raw material for current works. Credit: Aurèce Vettier

“As for the use of GANs and other generative algorithms, I am interested in understanding whether they can help us explore spaces and dimensions never seen before, and question what should be the contribution of a contemporary artist.” — Anis Gandoura

Paul Mouginot and Anis Gandoura already lived a few lives. They are both engineers and started working together a few years ago, as strategy consultants. In 2016, they co-founded (with a third colleague and friend) a start-up called daco, later acquired by Veepee, with the idea of helping retailers to achieve growth through a deep knowledge of their competitors. The start-up leveraged the power of AI and image recognition to gain insightful information about competitors' strategy, offer, pricing, discount and store network, classifying products and making them comparable.

Read the Full Interview on Cueva Gallery’s website.