Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean

We produced "Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean," a collection of works by artist/photographer Taro Karibe, as the first original project of Troublemakers.

In this work, Taro, who explores the creativity of AI and humans and technology’s act of seeing things, made machine eyes see illusions. He took pictures of glitch-generated screens on an LCD TV with a digital camera and loaded the images into an AI-equipped landscape photo recognition system; then, the AI made up nonsense landscape pictures based on its machine-learned memory. By using the AI's bias in this way, Taro drew out "how the machine intelligence wants to see the world." The images are strangely beautiful and let us experience the psychedelic and illusionary visual world of AI.

Text and Image / Taro Karibe
Art Direction & Design / Manami Inoue
Edit / Yuto Miyamoto
English Proofreading (Afterword) / Susie Krieble
Printing Direction / Keita Otsuka
Printed by Hakkou Bijyutsu
Published by Troublemakers Publishing