finley1589 #2

Mike Tyka, 2017, 4096 × 4096, @mtyka@mastodon.art , https://www.miketyka.com The series, titled "Portraits of Imaginary People" explores the latent space of human faces by training a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) to imagine and then depict portraits of people who don’t exist. The work is inspired by and named after Russian troll accounts spreading disinformation during the 2016 US elections. The piece "finley1589" was first published as part of a book titled "Portraits of Imaginary People" in 2017, Anteism Books, ISBN-13 9781926968414