Untitled (landscape from queer movie), 2018-2019
AI-generated image (Blender, Adobe Experience, Custom Dataset Training)
Tannon Reckling is a transdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York City. They are interested in LGBT identity outside of coastal, metropolitan cities, cyborg landscapes, and nuanced technologies, in addition to collaborations with other queer creatives. Untitled (landscape from queer movie) is part of an ongoing project that utilizes what Reckling calls “queer data,” or the personal and public content that is generated by queer individuals or icons of queer culture. His data ranges from intimate photographs to elements of pop culture, which is used to generate high-definition collages with artificial intelligence. The queer data for Untitled (landscape from queer movie) is from a film photograph taken by one of Reckling’s deceased loved ones. This highly emotional and charged content is abstracted and transformed into a landscape by AI, an exercise in processing grief and re-visualizing memory.
Artist Bio
Tannon Reckling (he/they) is a transdisciplinary arts laborer. They have attended University of Oregon, University of California-Los Angeles, New York University; they have been at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, and more. Their work follows: messy queer ontologies, nuanced technology, HIV/AIDS histories, and cultural shadow labor. @foreclosedgaybar