Ancestors explores virtual reproduction with image generating technologies. Digital Doubles modelled from the people are paired to synthetisize descendants, who establish their own family genealogy in a virtual community.
Visual adversarial neural networks compute amazingly photorealistic, artificial human faces. The illusory faces generated by AI can simulate convincingly the finest details of human face. Combining the narrative possibilities of AI and 3D face capturing, Ancestors stages people as parents of an imaginary family genealogy.
