Christopher Kulendran Thomas Is Imagining the Ghosts of the Future

For more than a decade, Christopher Kulendran Thomas has trained his own neural networks, building them from scratch before “AI art” was a widely used. He feeds images of Sri Lankan painters across generations into his models, then uses them to produce new compositions that he and his Berlin studio hand-paint onto canvas. The titles are simply the auto-generated file names of the source PNGs.“The network analyzes the aggregated patterns behind their work,” the artist told