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    • science fiction et mémoire culturel à la Gallerie Karsh Masson
    • Towards Decolonizing AI
    • From Poetical Science to GANism
    • The Question of Autonomy and Human Intention in Art & AI
    • (de)Stabilizing Diffusions
    • TransArt Futurological Congress
    • Mutek Artist Forum
    • Mutek AI Lab Press release
    • Fundamental Frequencies @ Music Motion Hacklab
    • MUTEK AI LAB
    • On Human Instrument
  • IDAA
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ISABELLA SALAS

Art + Purpose

  • About
  • PROJECTS
  • Producer
  • Publications
    • science fiction et mémoire culturel à la Gallerie Karsh Masson
    • Towards Decolonizing AI
    • From Poetical Science to GANism
    • The Question of Autonomy and Human Intention in Art & AI
    • (de)Stabilizing Diffusions
    • TransArt Futurological Congress
    • Mutek Artist Forum
    • Mutek AI Lab Press release
    • Fundamental Frequencies @ Music Motion Hacklab
    • MUTEK AI LAB
    • On Human Instrument
  • IDAA
  • Events

Small Flower Bits

Small Flower Bits is an audiovisual meditation on oceanic fragility, merging generative imagery and sonic resonance to explore digital memory’s imperfections and ecological urgency.

Developed in 2020, the project embraces vintage GAN aesthetics and a slow-tech approach, using the glitches and distortions of early AI to reflect on ephimerality—both technological and ecological. Trained on a limited dataset of endangered coral reefs, it challenges technological archives, where entire ecosystems risk being reduced to data voids. Rather than reconstructing reality, the work amplifies fragility, its spectral, shifting compositions mirroring the instability of marine life.

The sonic landscape, composed by Henry Thr Miller, translates digital textures into vibrational soundscapes, activating a multisensory dialogue between sound, image, and body.

In its live iteration at REEF Festival 2022 [HON], the piece was projected onto the ocean at night, where light, water, and movement merged. The work became transient—altered by the tide, dissolving into the sea—an ephemeral exchange between digital art and a vanishing ecosystem.

Exhibitions & Screenings

2022 – REEF Festival [HON]

2021 – Maison de la Culture Claude Léveillée [CA]

2020 – MUTEK [CA], Voltaje Festival [COL]

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