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6 imagesCandice Kwan lives and works in New York. Born in Hong Kong, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine. She received her A.B. and M.D. from Harvard University, and M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in photography, video, and lens-related media. She works as both physician and artist. Candice, Kwan, Candice Kwan, Candice Kwan Photography, Candice Kwan Art, Candice Kwan New York, Candice Kwan Hong Kong, Candice Kwan Harvard, Candice Kwan SVA, Candice Kwan SVA 2020, Candice Kwan SVA 2019, Candice Kwan ICP, Candice Kwan Digital Photography, Candice Kwan Photoshop, Candice Kwan post-photography, Candice Kwan collage,
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10 images"Wrong Wong" was created as a reaction to the rise in racism and hate incidents against Asian Americans in the United States in the aftermath of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Utilizing additive and subtractive color theory, and printmaking techniques, I constructed a multi-step process to add color onto archival black and white photographs of the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong (b. 1905). I reproduce the archival photograph onto acetate in cyan, magenta, yellow and black; apply paint on the image; and materially superimpose these results from the identical source image to create an entirely new image. This experimental printmaking process plays with the metamorphosis of color and the mutation of portraiture as a metaphor for the pathological social construction of race. The resultant multi-layered work combines history, nostalgia, and the accidental to allude to the complicated multiplicity of identity in being Chinese-American. “Wrong Wong” aims to sabotage the logic of color theory and subvert the “objective” clarity of photographic portraiture to create a more complex and enigmatic presentation of Asian-American identity.
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10 images"Byte Me" is an experimental collage video using a subset of jpg images of objects from ImageNet, the first largescale database used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems in object recognition and classification. The creators of ImageNet collected these images indiscriminately from the internet and labeled them using cheap human gig labor sourced via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. AI algorithms are then trained on this convenience sample of more than 14 million online photos organized into more than 20,000 categories of objects. This experimental video aims to examine what is in ImageNet, and question how power and privilege are embedded across a gender divide in the database.
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4 images"Copies Copies of Copies" is my personal protest of artificial intelligence (AI)-mediated image generation. Extracting jpg files from ImageNet, the foundational image database used to train AI, I paint – slowly copying a copy of a copy – all 4,096 pixels of selected 64x64 pixel digital photographs from the database. These paintings highlight the imperfect nature of what and how AI learns to 'see', and the labor-intensive process serves as a critique of the facile immediacy of AI image generators. In the age of the instant image generated by AI, I paint slowly.
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7 imagesWhat meaning or intention is retained in an image after having been processed through convolutional neural networks and other AI algorithms? What is the nature of looking in the age of AI?
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4 galleriesCandice Kwan lives and works in New York. Born in Hong Kong, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine. She received her A.B. and M.D. from Harvard University, and M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in photography, video, and lens-related media. She works as both physician and artist. Candice, Kwan, Candice Kwan, Candice Kwan Photography, Candice Kwan Art, Candice Kwan New York, Candice Kwan Hong Kong, Candice Kwan Harvard, Candice Kwan SVA, Candice Kwan SVA 2020, Candice Kwan SVA 2019, Candice Kwan ICP, Candice Kwan Early Work, Candice Kwan Film Photography, Candice Kwan Analog Photography
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3 galleriesCandice Kwan lives and works in New York. Born in Hong Kong, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine. She received her A.B. and M.D. from Harvard University, and M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in photography, video, and lens-related media. She works as both physician and artist. Candice, Kwan, Candice Kwan, Candice Kwan Photography, Candice Kwan Art, Candice Kwan Digital Photography, Candice Kwan New York, Candice Kwan Hong Kong, Candice Kwan Harvard, Candice Kwan SVA, Candice Kwan SVA 2020, Candice Kwan SVA 2019, Candice Kwan Mother, Candice Kwan Motherhood, Candice Kwan Family, Candice Kwan ICP, Photography, Art, Art Photography, Digital Photography, Home, Domestic, Home Photography, Self Portrait, Self-Portraiture, Selfie, Mom, Mum, Mother, Mothers, Motherhood, Maternal, Wife, Parent, Parenting, Parenthood, Love, Marriage, Relationship, Family, Baby, Child, Toddler, Mother Daughter, daughter, Identity, Chinese, Chinese-American, Asian, Asian-American, Chinese Photography, Chinese-American Photography, Asian-American Photography, Asian Amerrican Art, Feminist, Feminism, Feminist Photography, Feminist Art, New York, New York City, SVA, School of Visual Arts, MFA, Fine Arts, Harvard, Physician, Doctor, Medicine and Art, Physician Artist, Art and Medicine, Egg, Eggs, Apple, Physician Photographer, Mom Artist, Artists who are mothers, Photographers who are mothers, working moms, stay-at-home mom, motherhood identity, new mom, new mothers, new mother, artist mother, artist mother and child, artist/mother, photographer/mother, physician/mother, motherhood meaning, maternity, motherhood maternity, motherhood stages, new motherhood, becoming a mother, new mom struggles, new mom challenges, how I feel about becoming a mother, new mom meaning, struggles of being a mom, hardest part of being a new mom, first time parent, first time parent struggles, first time mom, first time mom struggles