Aapo Nikkanen @ Cosmos Carl, Apr 15

, 14 April 2016
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Aapo Nikkanen is presenting Images : Images (2016-2021) through online platform Cosmos Carl, launching on April 15.

The Paris-based artist’s ongoing interests in artificial intelligence and the “right to forget” in the digital age carries through to this five-year-long project, that will archive the image search results returned by the search term ‘images’ with the standard setting on Google.

In doing so, Nikkanen not only aims to generate a snapshot of the popular subconscious in an aggregated view of what constitutes a ‘beautiful image’ but also to track its evolution online through the trends identified in image searches: “In 1000 years, when one of our descendants stumbles upon the archive and understands that this is how we wanted to be remembered, I have succeeded.”

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Aapo Nikkanen, Aapo Museum (2013) @ P/////AKT, Amsterdam. Courtesy the artist.
Aapo Nikkanen, Aapo Museum (2013) @ P/////AKT, Amsterdam. Courtesy the artist.