Hoo Fan Chon is a visual arts practitioner based in George Town, Penang. His research-driven projects are often set in local geographies and concern class aspiration, cultural identity, informal histories, and colonial legacy.
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The Impossible Hand Gestures series
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2023 December, Kuala Lumpur @ The Back Room, curated by chi too
The Impossible Hand Gestures series
Acrylic on canvas 60 × 50 cm each
2023 December, Kuala Lumpur @ The Back Room, curated by chi too
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The Impossible Hand Gestures series
Acrylic on canvas 60 × 50 cm each
“The Impossible Hand Gestures series is an ongoing series of paintings in which the artist practices ‘reverse machine learning’ by asking AI generative technology to depict reality for him. The series depicts multiple forms of hand gestures that have been AI-generated and painted by Hoo. The series playfully subverts typical art-world discourse about the proliferation of artificial intelligence technology and its assumed threat to artists by capturing the flaws and chinks in the technology’s armour that inadvertently produce humorous and interesting new ways of interpreting the world. The series of friendly hand gestures(such as handshakes and high fives) also propose a relationship of cooperation between humans and machines instead of one of animosity or competition.”
Text by Ellen Lee
Text by Ellen Lee