OnlyGANS

An original visual arts series by Jacob Riddle

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Artist’s Statement
Welcome to the horniest gulch in the uncanny valley 😈

OnlyGANs is a collection of AI generated nudes created by training generative adversarial networks (GAN) on various NSFW subreddits. The intentions of these communities vary from amateur pornography in subs such as r/rearpussy, r/PLASTT, &  r/perfectdick to “building a library of what normal, everyday human bodies look like” in r/normalnudes r/averagepenis. How does our human response to the images change when a machine is generating images it believes fit into these subreddits? Are they erotic? Are the grotesques? Are they still bodies? Are they normal?

Despite the fact that these images do not depict any actual nudity, many of them can not be posted on social media platforms such as instagram. This is because their own AIs are trained, possibly on the same or similar dataset, to detect nude bodies. Therefore only the most abstract of OnlyGANs can be posted there, they occupy the dissonant space between two AIs, one trained to generate nudes and the other to detect them. The logical home for the rest of OnlyGANs is on OnlyFans.

These two images come from a GAN trained on the most recent 700 image post on r/noramlnudes at the time of creating the dataset in January of 2022.

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Jacob Riddle is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator with a passion for foraging connections between technology and the natural world. Drawing inspiration from his background in construction and labor industries, as well as his upbringing wading through the limestone creeks of the Appalachian foothills, Jacob has embarked on a creative journey to muddy these seemingly disparate realms.

Having honed his ingenuity and cultivated experiential learning through the challenges of rural Appalachian life, Jacob now channels this unique perspective into art, academia, and community. His work serves as a testament to the power of resilience, resourcefulness, play and the harmonious coexistence of the digital and the natural world.

Jacob has done artist residencies in Finland, Norway, Berlin, Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest and his work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico, Japan, Norway, Finland, Italy, Belgium, France, Poland, The Netherlands, Australia, and in many virtual corners of the Internet.
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