VIDEO ART
NEUROMYTHOLOGY.CHUVASHIA
2022
The study of the cultural code is one of the most significant topics in art. In this project, in addition to the study of the culture of Chuvash, current technologies are involved – neural networks.

One of the sources of the formation of Chuvash mythology was the mythological representations of the ancient Turkic-speaking ancestors of the Chuvash, the closest parallels are found in the mythology of the Sayano–Altai Turkic-speaking peoples - the Altaians, Khakas, as well as Yakuts and Buryats. This is what attracted the artist to Chuvash mythology, because it is similar to Buryat mythology.

The artist noticed this similarity by chance. Therefore, she decided to create the work neuromythology of Chuvashia.

The visual part of the work was created using a neural network, which is able to create an image based on a text description. In her creative activity, the artist uses programmable art, the connection of something concrete as a number and subjective and boundless as creativity.

All the images of myths that we can find on the Internet were created by people at different times, and have similar features, because a person has his own idea of the world, about how the deities looked many years ago, about how the earth looked.

The gods in most cases have an anthropomorphic image, but we cannot say for sure whether this or that god had the shape of a human head, 2 arms, 2 legs.

Neural networks allow you to create something that will not be directly related to human stereotypes. This technology creates only what we described in the text from color noise. And in her project, the artist transfers the role of creating a picture to a computer, thereby depriving the image of a direct human experience.

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