Digital to Analog?

Artificial intelligence will be the next revolution, just like the social upheaval smartphones and new technologies are bringing us today. Two years ago, Leblanc was approached to help develop an app that could imitate his style and technique of painting. Curious by nature, the artist agreed to participate by sending some photos of paintings. After a few months of learning, the software generated some impressive examples. “The general appearance was not perfect, but 75% of one of my executions,” said Leblanc. For unknown reasons, the project was subsequently abandoned. Impressed by the sketchy results, Leblanc reflected on the intriguing AI as an artist. An audiophile in his spare time, his journey has led him to compare the world of music, which uses “Digital to Analog Converter” DACs to reproduce the sequences of 0 and 1 to an analogous sound quality.

 

Reversing the language.

The digital medium is rendered in sequences of 0s and 1s to reproduce analog language. So by taking a binary translator (0-1), Leblanc writes a subject, a style or an emotion, and the computer generates a series of (0-1), which is the binary language of artificial intelligence rendering.

 

Leblanc’s Digital/Analogue series is a result of the conversion of a digital work title into an analog work. On canvas, the visual graphically gives an increasingly fragmented assemblage of 0-1 with each painting that Leblanc executes.