OLIVER LARIC | 787 Clipart

1 Dec 2024-30 Nov 2025

Oliver Laric, 787 Cliparts, 2024, AI animation

Overview

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is pleased to present an AI animation by Austrian artist Oliver Laric (b. 1981). This presentation is part of our new digital programme which will take place over the course of a year, and offer unique insights into new media artists using film, video animation, and digital media, as well as their latest technological explorations, including blockchain and advanced technologies such as AI. Our goal is to contextualise their work within historical digital art themes and promote their practices to both our digital and traditional art collectors.  

787 Cliparts (2024) by Oliver Laric presents hundreds of figures derived from re-worked stock illustrations of people participating in a variety of activities - marshal artists and dancers, gurus and yogis, lovers and soldiers, wrestlers and musicians, on and on they run, like depictions of historic saints with attributes illustrating their characterisation. Costumes, accessories, poses or ethnicities emphasises the differences between them.

This is an evolution of a work Laric made over 18 years ago, based on his collection of 1990s and early 2000s clip art - graphic pre-made found imagery. Laric has now re-worked and upgraded the original hand drawn images with an AI image to image algorithm. Full of rich detail, here is a new quality of image - they read like photographs but are not quite photographs. The artist has created a new aesthetic, one that will continue to evolve as AI itself develops in the coming years.

787 Cliparts questions concepts of authorship – who drew the originals? We will never know what corporate presentation, advertisement or whimsical use such stock imagery might have been put to. Smooth and seamless, they are stylised, anonymous figures, standing in for aspects of human life. Detached from an environment, as these figures rapidly scroll past, although we recognise a cross-section of human life, it becomes clear this is not a neutral representation. They depict stereotypes and the bias of the original AI training data. As Laric says, “They are a portrait of emphasis and omission at the same time.” 787 Cliparts is a representation of a particular moment in time - open-ended and non-narrative, the meaning remains elusive. 

Visit the gallery website to watch the video: https://www.annkakultys.com/moving-image/  

The online programme will feature weekly launches on Sundays over the course of 12 months. The first four artists to be showcased are: Jonas Lund (17 November 2024), Sara Sadik (24 November 2024), Oliver Laric (1 December 2024) and Lauren Lee McCarthy (8 December 2024).  

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