GAN of Living Skies (2023) offers a new perspective on the relationship between AI and the environment utilizing solar energy to re-imagine—and build upon—American landscape imagery. The machine itself, as it moves through the landscape brings us into a thoughtful pause, while the images ask us to question whether they are created by human or machine.
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The artist states, “The project consists of a machine-learning model, an image database, and a customized computer housed within a portable solar-powered charging station called the ‘WaGAN.'”
The waGAN’s final product of its landscape painting.
The waGAN’s captured training footage of the landscape.
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Digital America interviewed Cat Bluemke in April of 2025.
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Cat Bluemke is an artist working primarily in game design, expanded reality, and performance. Previously working collaboratively as SpekWork Studio and Tough Guy Mountain, she creates games, performances, and immersive experiences that explore technology’s ability to obscure the line between work and play. Her work has been exhibited internationally with prominent institutions including Rhizome and the New Museum (2020) and the Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) as part of the American pavilion’s corollary exhibits. Recent exhibitions include the Lunenburg School of the Arts (2025), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2024), the Milan Machinima Festival (2024), the Singapore Art Museum (2023), Art Gallery of Regina (2023), and the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (2022).
