Blade Runner--Autoencoded Whitney Museum of American Art

The artist and computer scientist Terence Broad built an autoencoder, a type of artificial neural network, and showed it the classic science-fiction film Blade Runner (1982). He trained the autoencoder to remember every individual frame of the film and to reconstruct each one as a memory, on view here. In the original film, a bounty hunter hunts down androids that are so well engineered that they are indistinguishable from humans. Here, we face a similar challenge, as we trying to identify the original film within the AI's program's perception of it. Terence Broad, Blade Runner--Autoencoded, 2016 Advance tickets are required.