Deceptive Dimension

The exhibition Deceptive Dimension by the Pakistan artist, Iqra Iqbal can be accessed at the main square of the town of Korčula. The exhibition is visible through personal mobile devices, connecting via the “grey) (area” Wi-Fi network. This is a new digital art presentation format organized by the grey) (area association - a space for contemporary and media art from Korčula, realized in cooperation with the Format C Art Organization based in Zagreb and the Korčula Town Museum.

The exhibition Deceptive Dimension shows an exploration of generating glitch images using artificial intelligence techniques. The database consists of 60 images. The author explores a wide range of mathematical concepts such as minimal surfaces, polyhedral geometry, symmetrical tessellations, kaleidoscopic projections and fractal patterns. For this exhibition she uses separate technological processes of digital image processing through three series of artworks: Content_Imgs, Style_Imgs and Neural_Art. As materials and processes, she uses images with a moiré effect, data moshing generated by applying audio effects to image files, as well the Neural Style Transfer. This software offers a technique to take two images—a content image and a style reference image (such as an artwork by a famous painter)—and blend them so the output image looks like the content image, but "painted" in the style of the style reference image. The sound of the exhibition is made from sonified images.

The Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area has been set up on Pivilion, a free and open operating system developed by Dina Karadžić and Vedran Gligo of Format C. The wireless local area network (WLAN) is freely available and introduces digital artwork automatically, without a password or further action, to anyone connecting with the Wi-Fi network. Since 2022 grey) (area Wi-Fi Gallery is permanently available in Korčula’s St. Mark's Square, presenting works were chosen by curators from grey) (area and Format C.