study room studies

study room studies is a split-screen moving image work emanating from my participation in an online study site in which I paint digital still lifes from temporarily unoccupied video feeds while a real time object detection algorithm called YOLO (You Only Look Once) erratically classifies objects from both the video feed as well as my painting. Each painting ends the moment a user returns to the feed, as does my proxy presence as human studier in their networked study room. This work sits with the divergent rhythms of human and machine learning at a relatively nascent time in artificial intelligence, as YOLO and I demonstrate our convergent training in visual representation. The act of ingesting and performing knowledge with a body in space becomes increasingly dramatic in the face of waxing AI infrastructures. Owing their verisimilitude to moments of rupture and rest, study rooms studies brings the interconnected landscapes that hold these magnificently imperfect acts into focus.