{"id":83374,"date":"2022-12-06T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=83374"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:39:58","slug":"211-kyriaki-goni-couple-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/modern-love-love-in-the-age-of-cold-intimacies\/211-kyriaki-goni-couple-goals","title":{"rendered":"Kyriaki Goni. Couple Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyriaki Goni
\nperfect love #couplegoals #AIgenerativeImages<\/em>, 2020-2022
\nSingle channel video, 20.000 scraped images and captions from Instagram public accounts<\/em> colour, silent, 63\u0384 45\u0384\u0384, wallpaper 5 x 2m, 180 AI generated images
\n<\/em>Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

The Perfect Love: #couplegoals #AIgenerativeImages<\/em> is a video composed of images, captions and likes from approximately 20,000 posts under the hashtag #couplegoals, collected from open Instagram profiles in July 2020 by a scraping algorithm. In addition, Goni used sentences like \u201ccouples who are hugging tenderly\u201d or \u201cpeople kissing\u201d to produce, with the help of an image generation algorithm, 180 new images of lovers that are shown as a wallpaper. These images exist only in the digital reality and have uncanny features: limbs and fingers are redundant; the geometry of the bodies is far from human.<\/p>\n

The Perfect Love: #couplegoals #AIgenerativeImages <\/em>raises questions about the increasingly dissolving barrier between the public and the private, the difference between the virtual and the real, the staged and the banal, as well as the gap that exists between the visible and the invisible in the digital domain. Finally, it aims to engender questions about those virtual, carefully edited and \u2018framed\u2019 representations of love on the Internet, versus the reality of real-time romantic relationships. We find ourselves in a voyeuristic position of observing couples and reading their intimate declarations of love and dedication and voluntary relinquishment of privacy.<\/p>\n

\u039coreover, the post-archive and the composite images call into question the online sharing of personal material, the stereotypical nature of what we regard as personal, and the way in which digital representation standardises feelings, affection and their image. Social networks observe us, learn from us, and then reconstruct and generate new images \u2013 of tenderness, in this case \u2013 which we, in turn, learn and are expected to identify with.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/p>\n

Kyriaki Goni was born in Athens where she lives and works.\u00a0 She holds a BA in Visual Arts and an MA in Digital Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts) as well as graduate and postgraduate degrees on Social and Cultural Anthropology in Athens and in Leiden, Netherlands. Working across disciplines and technologies, she creates expanded, multi-layered installations. She connects the local with the global by critically examining questions of surveillance, distributed networks and infrastructures, ecosystems, as well as human and other than human relations. She writes and teaches frequently as part of her practice.\u00a0 Recent solo shows include:\u00a0 SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen; KVOST Art Collection Telekom, Berlin; Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens; Drugo More, Rijeka; Aksioma, Ljubljana. Group exhibitions include 2nd Warsaw Biennale, 8th Gherdeina Biennale, Ars Electronica, 24th Thessaloniki Photobiennale, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Transmediale2020, and the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial. Prizes and fellowships include: Allianz Kulturstiftung and Bertelmanns Stiftung, Ars Electronica and Telekom, the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.<\/p>\n

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