March 8, 2025
Vadim Epstein
Terminal Blink (2020) Experiment:Human faces (as the most presented subject in CV practice) were produced with StyleGAN2 FFHQ model, finetuned on Bauhaus-inspired squarish architecture of XX century, which reduced their identity into impersonal gray-concrete looks. Those ‘faceless’ faces were processed with StarGAN2 models, trained on multiple visual art sources – from Kandinsky to engravings – to apply diverse imaginative representations. These representations appeared heavily revised by the machine, since StarGAN2 results get quite far from plain style transfer. Conclusion:We treat Machine Vision hereby as insight (rather than eyesight) concept. Produced synthetic imagery is following familiar artistic tendencies yet; it may