‍Memory Intensified by Hand of Manual World is a two-channel video installation that continues the artist’s research into the development of various machine learning and artificial perceptual systems. Ramić excavates an uneasy poetics from the language and methodologies employed by the computational scientists designing these technologies, locating within this space a series of extended metaphors for our own lacunae of perception—and by extension, the tenuousness of all human knowledge.

Developed during her time at lower_cavity, the project represents Ramić’s first foray into working with projection. The work consists of two loops projected onto scrims of sheer fabric, creating floating, apparition-like sequences of partially overlaid animals, insects, and objects. The images themselves are taken from ImageNet, an openly available database of web-sourced images used in the training various artificial perception systems.

Works by what creatuers want? To disintegrate at regular intervals, to close me one day with eyes, to stopping time problems.

1. 13% red-breasted merganser 87% isopod
   
2. 86% seal 14% coffee maker
   
3. 55% bullfrog 45% king penguin
   
4. 99% tabby 1% praying mantis
   
5. 21% dung beetle 79% harp
   
6. 75% rock beauty 25% porcupine
   
7. 28% fox squirrel 72% electric fan
   
8. 48% butterfly 52% guenon
   
9. 96% puffer 4% Brussels griffon
   
10. 42% sea urchin 58% giraffe
    
11. 21% bluebird 79% Indian spectacled cobra
    
12. 17% Tibetan terrier 83% clog
    
13. 68% red-breasted merganser 32% snail
    
14. 50% jellyfish 50% Kuvasz
    
15. 8% cabbage butterfly 22% marmoset
    
16. 13% fennec fox 87% power drill
    
17. 51% wolf spider 49% hourglass
    
18. 39% Japanese spaniel 61% goldfish
    
19. 15% Siamese cat 85% nautilus
    
20. 13% bee 87% green mamba
    
21. 33% ptarmigan 67% head cabbage
    
22. 15% marmoset 85% gossamer-winged butterfly
    
23. 17% loggerhead sea turtle 83% digital clock
    
24. 26% vine snake 74% megalithic structure
    
25. 22% sea star 78% hedgehog
    
26. 52% walkingstick 48% folding chair
    
27. 91% chameleon 9% hare

1. 4% spoonbill 96% eel
2. 87% tiger beetle 13% vacuum
3. 44% Persian cat 56% toaster
4. 87% ladybug 13% sea urchin
5. 15% Indian spectacled cobra 85% vizsla
6. 33% polar bear 67% shower cap
7. 26% red panda 74% loggerhead sea turtle
8. 53% common newt 47% plate rack
9. 88% sea lion 12% Pekingese
10. 39% goldfish 61% airliner
11. 80% black grouse 20% Angora rabbit
12. 85% cheetah 15% walkingstick
13. 45% green lizard 55% Samoyed
14. 44% butterfly 56% Egyptian Mau
15. 18% spiny lobster 82% goose
16. 23% tailed frog 77% French loaf
17. 60% electric ray 40% domestic shorthair cat
18. 48% elephant 52% sports car
19. 79% conch 21% hognose snake
20. 31% mongoose 69% gossamer-winged butterfly
21. 88% tiger shark 12% tool kit
22. 2% dragonfly 98% guenon
23. 4% armadillo 96% jellyfish
24. 50% isopod 50% beaker
25. 65% boxer 35% electric ray
26. 13% red-breasted merganser 87% screwdriver
27. 55% barn spider 45% Irish setter

Mildly asked us pictures of them to regenerate-after-losing-nearly-half-its-body. Unseen flower absent space decision to leave the memories. Self-supervised degradation: the calculation you do not feel in you can be the same.

Adriana Ramić is an artist based in New York. She has had one and two person exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kimberly-Klark, New York, and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and also exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; New Galerie, Paris; LUMA/Westbau, Zürich; Kunstpalais, Erlangen, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and many others. Her work has been covered in publications such as Artforum, Flash Art, and the New York Times, and she has spoken at Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; American Medium, New York; homeschool, Portland; Yale School of Art, New Haven; and University of the Arts, Helsinki.