susi gutsche
about
Susi Gutsche is a research-driven artist with a background in Social Design – Arts as Urban Innovation, humanities, and scientific laboratory work. She participated in archaeological excavations, worked in clinical research settings, and collaborated with research institutions, integrating scientific methods into her artistic experiments.
Her work explores the intersection of art and everyday life, routines, and their aesthetics, addressing societal and environmental processes (in urban contexts). Through an experimental approach, she engages with multiple media, combining video, photography, participatory actions, unconventional materials and technologies. Currently she is especially interested in visual ruptures and non-smooth aesthetics.
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Laten(t)cy – in progress: 2025
With a speculative visual decoding approach to future evolution of different species of aspergillus, the project questions the notion of lethal beauty, both latent and with ever decreasing latency. The power of AI through image generation and pattern processing will be addressed presented twofold: as a positive new tool enabling rapid developments in human medicine, but also as potential threat that can lead to breaking changes. Viewed from a dystopian angle, AI hallucinations can also have novel artifical models come up with new lethal species, leading to ultimate chaos for humanity. When already (natural) climate change contributes heavily to growth of new organisms and unknown pathogens, how will different species of artificial aspergillus look like?
We selected 40 representative scientific images of different species from the aspergillus family from medical databases to train our own task-specific image generation model. We aim to provide a case study on the aesthetics that can be produced with specialised, artificially restricted models leading to speculation about possible future types of aspergillus.
aspergillus
Aspergillus is a large genus of several hundred mold species found worldwide, with some causing fungal infections (aspergillosis) in humans and plants, particularly A. fumigatus and A. flavus. Other species have important commercial applications, including A. oryzae and A. sojae in Asian food fermentation (sake, soy sauce), and A. niger in chemical production.
Some species serve dual roles, being both industrially useful and potential pathogens.
Laten(t)cy – in progress: 2025
With a speculative visual decoding approach to future evolution of different species of aspergillus, the project questions the notion of lethal beauty, both latent and with ever decreasing latency. The power of AI through image generation and pattern processing will be addressed presented twofold: as a positive new tool enabling rapid developments in human medicine, but also as potential threat that can lead to breaking changes. Viewed from a dystopian angle, AI hallucinations can also have novel artifical models come up with new lethal species, leading to ultimate chaos for humanity. When already (natural) climate change contributes heavily to growth of new organisms and unknown pathogens, how will different species of artificial aspergillus look like?
We selected 40 representative scientific images of different species from the aspergillus family from medical databases to train our own task-specific image generation model. We aim to provide a case study on the aesthetics that can be produced with specialised, artificially restricted models leading to speculation about possible future types of aspergillus.
aspergillus
Aspergillus is a large genus of several hundred mold species found worldwide, with some causing fungal infections (aspergillosis) in humans and plants, particularly A. fumigatus and A. flavus. Other species have important commercial applications, including A. oryzae and A. sojae in Asian food fermentation (sake, soy sauce), and A. niger in chemical production.
Some species serve dual roles, being both industrially useful and potential pathogens.
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