Calvin Guillot is a visual artist who works with visual storytelling, interactive installations, and immersive experiences. Guillot’s large-scale works aim to uncover new ways to engage with the world around us by exploring the sublime, infinitism, and identity. His goal is to push the boundaries of what is possible at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
To the festival Guillot brings an exhibition titled The Carlosverse, that showcases hundreds of distinct synthetics images of Carlos Perez. Each image is crafted through a synthesis of various artificial intelligence systems. Some images portray the mundane aspects of everyday life, while others depict alternate realities in which the very fabric of human nature has undergone a metamorphosis. “What does it mean to be a Carlos? If your identity can be anything, even beyond human forms, then what does it me to be you? As our physical appearance becomes increasingly entwined with our sense of self, we must confront the implications of a world where hundreds of thousands of variations of our image can be effortlessly generated. Who, then, lays claim to these images, and how do they challenge our notions of individuality, ownership, and the very essence of our humanity”, Guillot says about the themes of the work.
Curators’ comments: “An immersive collection of identities that makes one reflect not only on the possibilities of artificial intelligence but also on the many facets of self-perception.”
