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Cultural treasure
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Cultural treasure
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Youth
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Soviet era
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Natural disaster
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Diet
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Builders
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Doctors
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Teacher
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City view
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Village people
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Independence day
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Scientific achievement
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Army general
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Animals
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Freedom monument
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Rock band
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Sculpture
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Ballet dancers
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Film makers
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Sports
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Poet
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Riga Photomonth
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Theater actors
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Fashion supermodels
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Police chief
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President
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TV announcer
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Vehicle
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Celebrity
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At pastime
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Future
Latvians are often preoccupied with defining and safeguarding their identity. As part of the project, three artificial intelligence image generators were involved - DALL-E, DeepAI and Stable Diffusion, but rather than focusing on their technological capabilities, I was more interested in the ideas, stereotypes, prejudices, and ideologies that their human inventors imparted to them. I asked them to create images on various general topics, with each caption including the words “Latvia,” “Latvian,” or “Latvia’s,” depending on the grammar. I selected and categorized the images into a total of 31 themes, which together formed 31 exhibitions. Each exhibition was on display for a day from May 1 until May 31, 2023, as part of Riga Photomonth festival. Through this project I sought to explore how young artists in the early stages of their careers perceive Latvia today, before they learn to show us the world as we want to see it. Latvia via AI both documents artificial intelligence and deconstructs the self-image of Latvians, inviting them to look at themselves from a critical point of view.
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