Aiotype

Aiotype

Sári Zagyvai

Stock photos and artificial intelligence meet analog photographic processes in my images. I combine everyday panoramas, plants, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes and they became surreal and harmonious compositions. AI works with almost all photos of seas, mountains, deserts, plants which can be found on the internet. Sums it up for us, so we have to say that the pictures in a sense contains every sight of seas, mountains and desert that man has ever "seen". But after the application of the necessary technical requirements, the positive analog photo that is born on the analog photo lab reflects what was visible on the monitor. The very low resolution, the use of filters or a single drop of water on the monitor distort the grid and the original picture in such a way that elements can be discover almost only in traces. At the end I create a new layer with a process without camera for example with photogram where the plants placed on the paper. Plants appear as snow -white and in a completely new dimension. The found images go through a transformation that can be linked to a spontaneous processes and can not be repeated. I believe that mistakes can be linked to creativity, and appear as a second layer as a result of uncontrollable processes. The works explore the relationship between the objective landscape and the subjective, personal imagemaking process, whereby found footage is objectified into reinterpreted reality through the processing of dreamlike visions and transformations. The known world becomes an abstract creative language through varied intervention techniques. My photos serve to prompt the viewers to stop and to linger they enable us to observe. My images are unique unrepeatable copies.
Sketches of an excursion

Sketches of an excursion

Sári Zagyvai

Sketches of an excursion

Nominated by Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, 2022

My photo series explores issues of digital visual culture through the presentation of popular tourist landscapes. Throughout my work in the photo lab I have been turning everyday visual imagery to abstract art. I replaced the negative film with an electric display. Analogue and digital layers are integrated in my new works. Using a mix of analog and digital methods, I ex- perimented with how to display grains and pixels on a single surface. Upon selecting the digital photographs, I was looking for canonical representations that is standardized digital images about distant places. The works explore the relationship between the objective landscape and the subjective, personal imagemaking process, whereby found footage is objectified into reinterpreted reality through the processing of dreamlike visions and transformations. The known world becomes an abstract creative language through varied intervention techniques. My photos serve to prompt the viewers to stop and to linger they enable us to observe. In case of photograms plants and things come into contact with the photo paper. My images are unique unrepeatable copies.