“There is the sense of witnessing a private, secretive, and interior process, yet one contrasted by the vast exterior of open-source images on which it feeds.”
– Critic
Forrest Muelrath, on the “disturbing, hallucinatory” scenes on view at Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner’s
bitforms gallery exhibition. “Alchemical” builds on Reas’
Compressed Cinema series, in which a carefully trained GAN model reimagines a corpus of feature films. “It’s not quite dream imagery,” writes Muelrath, “more like unconscious thoughts before they can be articulated.”
