Maria Mavropoulou

Artist Maria Mavropoulou addresses the intriguing world of the intersection between technology and humanity that runs through our present. Throughout her short but prolific career, she has transcended the conventional boundaries of art to capture the essence of intimacy in the presence of technology. His photography is imbued with modern vibes and a deep commitment to human emotions in the digital world. With a strong background in fine art, he has forged a unique career that fuses creativity and cutting-edge technology: virtual reality, screen captures, GAN image generation or artificial intelligence, to reflect on the ways in which images are produced today. He uses photography as his primary medium, but his work expands beyond conventional photos.

 

 

With the series Image Eaters, he focuses on the creation of images and their distribution in an age brimming with visual pollution and, at the same time, questions the two-way relationship between the creators and distributors of images, humans and algorithms.

The main idea came from the realisation of a correlation between images and food. Food is a basic need of every living being, it is fundamental for its growth and survival, while images, on the contrary, are far from being critical for our survival. However, the vocabulary we use to talk about images as ‘food’ feed in social networks or when we say that an Artificial Intelligence system must be fed in order to be trained.

There is a new breed of non-human AI objects and algorithms that depend on images to evolve and survive. And as these intelligent systems and machines take over more and more aspects of our lives, we too are dependent on images in ways we have not yet realised. Technology is constantly evolving and we are becoming more and more dependent on images.

 

This series aspires to question what an image is today while paradoxically using images to achieve it. The work is inscribed within the scopic turn that is happening today. Images are no longer a representation of the world but are creating a new one, a new reality.