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Looking Outwards 09: on Looking Outwards
Looking at other students’ looking outwards posts, I found the looking outwards 06: randomness post by the username “catbug” interesting. The work he/she talks about it Robbie Barrat’s Neural Network Balenciaga series. Barrat produced a random image by analyzing the similarities in thousands images from Balenciaga runway and interpret the patterns in those. I agree with him/her that it is very interesting and admirable that this project throws the whole concept of randomness into question; that they are series of randomly generated images yet look so similar to each other and look so consistent in the style. I wonder if it is a similar concept to the average. Analyzing thousands of images of Balenciaga runway and lookbook may have allowed the algorithm/system to find out the patterns in the clothes and find out the “average” of the aspects of the Balenciaga style and that led to generating the most “Balenciaga” images.