Felicity Hammond explores the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning in V3: Model Collapse, the third chapter of her new four-part project Variations.

Variations is an evolving installation investigating the processes and power dynamics at play in a new era of photography.   Developed across four UK venues in 2024-25, Felicity Hammond (b. 1988, UK) uses artificial intelligence (AI) to map how digital photographic material makes its journey from mineral to pixel; and from beneath the Earth’s surface to the screen.

V3: Model Collapse offers an encounter with AI hallucinations through photographic images that have been destabilised. Using different methods from painting to collage, the photographs reflect the errors and inconsistencies of AI generated images, where the output is always an imitation.

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