Briganoon Valley

Born from a digital kiln of thousands of fiery visages, and two GANs the valley Briganoon appears through the lens of a DCGAN model, the foundational 64-pixel brushstrokes are transformed into the valley into the town. 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 DCGAN - Radford, Alec; Metz, Luke; Chintala, Soumith . "Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks" & Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie, Chao Dong, Ying Shan 2021 https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10833 Daniel Ambrosi Dreamscapes|2016|https://www.danielambrosi.com/Dreamscapes-Portal