Captured at the intersection of ignition and air, a matchstick's flame unfurls into ethereal shapes, its light casting a dance of smoke and brilliance. The moment is a silent yet profound testament to the transient beauty of fire, as it breathes life into the darkness, creating forms that exist only in the fleeting seconds of combustion.
Channeling the fire myths of the world, Prometheus, the Phoenix, the gods of the sun and flame. A story of technology brought to humans; to myths of destruction and rebirth. To be immortal; to be a god; it is always a paradox of fire and technology. The morality of the fire is always in question but we desire it and fear it. And yet it has changed us, we have learned so much since we first touched fire. We used it to destroy the wood, smelt the metal and build the chip. And now we teach and show the fire what we know; what we create and our reflection is there telling us our faults. The GAN is but a single neuron in a blazing star; a greater fire is coming.
One of 200 unique pieces of art in Painting With Fire: A History in GANs. Exploring the history of generative adversarial networks GAN as represented by fire. https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire
BigBiGan - Jeff Donahue, Karen Simonyan, Large Scale Adversarial Representation Learning, 2018
BiGAN - Goodfellow, Ian; Pouget-Abadie, Jean; Mirza, Mehdi; Xu, Bing; Warde-Farley, David; Ozair, Sherjil; Courville, Aaron; Bengio, Yoshua (2014). Generative Adversarial Nets (PDF). Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014). pp. 2672–2680.|2014|https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets.pdf
