FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Jon Chambers

Approximations of a Body Part
Jon Chambers
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival
Approximations of a Body Part – United States
A machine learning experiment that takes custom model outputs trained on 3D body scans and uses them in other model inputs. After a few cycles, the resulting videos depict terrifying, seductive and uncanny distant echoes of the original body.
BIO
Jon Chambers is an artist and educator based in New Orleans. His work explores how we negotiate our physical and virtual lives to highlight a fractured sense of self as we attempt to coalesce disparate echoes of reference into something coherent amidst the difficulty of manifesting or orienting oneself within approximation and simulation overload.