I’m Feeling Lucky is a real-time, computer-generated animation that explores relationships with image, geography, virtual space, historical media technology, and mass data collection systems. The work showcases an endless 3D virtual landscape that is both historically and geographically ambiguous, generated in real-time using game engine technology.
This virtual landscape is populated with thousands of figures sourced from Google Street View, each processed through a deep neural network to become three-dimensional models frozen in their original photographed poses.
I’m Feeling Lucky, video still, photo: Timothy Thomasson
The work draws on 19th century panorama paintings, which hold historical, cultural, and perceptual significance, situating them within contemporary media contexts. In I’m Feeling Lucky, the panoramic image becomes infinite as the virtual camera slowly pans across the landscape.
Bio
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Photo: Milo ReinhardtTimothy Thomasson
CA
Timothy Thomasson is a Montréal-based artist. His work interrogates the ways in which moving images are produced and consumed in historical and contemporary contexts, looking particularly at the effects of computer-generated images and emerging technologies on society, culture, aesthetics and perception. His work has been exhibited at galleries and media festivals internationally.
Credits
Timothy Thomasson
Sound Design and Composition: Tatum Wilson
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts, and Société des arts technologiques (SAT) Residency Program.
