Ian Truelove

  Human Alignment.
  2024.
  Video, 8 minute loop.
  1920 x 1080 pixels.

What happens when we give the machine our brushes and instruct it to finish our artwork? Here, a human-crafted painting is progressively iterated into artificial art through the use of Adobe Photoshop’s AI-powered generative fill tool. Adobe’s engine extends the artist's painting with its best-guess brushstrokes, delivering two different but equally plausible simulations. Every eight minutes, both parts of the original human artwork align and we see how the artist used his hand to channel five decades of fleshy existence. In between, all we see are two believable but cold-hearted machine-made approximations of art.

  1 bit human 48 bit machine.
  2023.
  Digital image.
  10240 x 10240 pixels.

1 Bit Humans A, B & C

  1 bit human 8 bit machine A, B, C.
  2023.
  Inkjet on paper.
  100cm x 100cm x 3.

Humans within

  Human within the frame of the machine.
  2023.
  Video, 6 minute loop.
  Three video monitors.

1 Bit Human A

  1 bit human 8 bit machine A.
  2023.
  Digital artwork.

1 Bit Human B

  1 bit human 8 bit machine B.
  2023.
  Digital artwork.

1 Bit Human C

  1 bit human 8 bit machine C.
  2023.
  Digital artwork.

Artworks, exhibitions and selected research outputs:

Truelove, I. & Rankovic, K. (2023) Dramatis Personae [Augmented Reality Artwork]. In: Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, vol.4 ‘Touch’.

Truelove, I. (2023) Human Centred [Artwork], Computer Arts Society Members Exhibition, BCS Moorgate London, 10th July to 30 November 2023.

Truelove, I. (2023) The skin of a human painted by a human repainted by a machine. [Artwork], In anticipation of… A Room: Leeds School of Arts, 27th April to 4th May 2023.

Jackson, D. & Truelove, I. (2022) Folding in Eleven Dimensions [Augmented Reality Artwork]. In: Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, vol.3 ‘Folds’.

Folding the Page, 25 November 2022. London (2022). Folding in Eleven Dimensions [Conference paper], Jackson, D. & Truelove, I., Tate Britain, 25 November.

Digital Painting Photography International Online Symposium, 21-22 October 2021. Derby (2021). Skins of Reality: 3D scanning, digital painting and VR. [Conference paper], Truelove, I., University of Derby, 21 October.

Frid, D., Nappi, C. & Truelove, I. (2021) Read this Body [Augmented Reality Artwork]. In: Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, vol.2 ‘Holes’.

Truelove, I. (2020) Human/Machine, In: Stimulus-Respond (23) November, pp. 110-116. ISSN-1746-8086.

Saper, C. & Truelove, I. (2020) Foam [Augmented Reality Artwork]. In: Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, vol.1 'Beginnings'.

Truelove, I. (2020) Bringing the Blockchain to Life: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the algorithm. [Conference paper], DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.42, In: J. Weinel, J.P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation & the Arts. BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT, eWiC, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78017-538-6.

EVA London Digital Arts Conference, 9-12 July 2019. London (2019). This is not a Pixel: Building trust in digital art through the block-chain [Conference paper], Truelove, I., British Computer Society, 10 July.

Stirling, E. & Truelove, I. (2019) To imagine what is possible. In: Digby, P. ed. material-process-object. Leeds: Independent Publishing Network, pp. 26-31.

EVA London Digital Arts Conference, 10-13 July 2018. London (2018). Ultra-infra: Becoming Skin. [Virtual Reality Artwork], Truelove, I., British Computer Society, 10-13 July.

EVA London Digital Arts Conference, 10-13 July 2018. London (2018). Ultra-infra: Becoming Skin. [Conference paper], Truelove, I., British Computer Society, 10 July.

The Audiovisual Body, (2018). The Artist’s Presence. [Augmented Reality Artwork], Briggs, J., Truelove, I. & Worth, Z., University of Huddersfield, 11-12 June.

Truelove, I. (2017) Palpable art and haptic technologies. [Industry Presentation], Bristol: Ultrahaptics, 24 July.

SteamVR Workshop/Exploring Digital Futures Conference, May 2017, Online/Scarborough (2017). Paintings, 2011-2017. [Virtual Reality Artwork], Truelove, I., Stephen Joseph Theatre/Reel/Askew Brook/Valve.

Exploring Digital Futures Conference, May 2017, Scarborough (2017) Art & VR. Mack, K., Nicholls, I., Smyth, K. & Truelove, I., Stephen Joseph Theatre/Reel/Askew Brook.

Goldsmith, K., Morris, S., & Truelove, I. (2016) Seven American Deaths and Disasters [Artwork], Reading as Art (Exhibition), Bury Art Museum, 26 August to 19 November 2016.

Deleuze Studies Conference Camp, 3-7 July 2016. Rome (2016) Just about becoming: painting a skin of life. [Artist in residence/workshop presentations] Truelove, I., Department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts of University of Roma Tre.

Truelove, I. (2016) The Thing in Itself. [Video Projection]. In: Big Screen [Curated by Alan Dunn]. Millennium Square, Leeds. 5 April 2016.

Design & Creativity Conference, January. Leeds (2015) Z is for Zero: The World is Flat. Truelove, I. Leeds Beckett University.

Qualifications

PhD, Leeds Beckett University, 2018.

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2015.

Masters by Research, Leeds Metropolitan University, 1999.

Post Graduate Certificate in Research Methodology, Leeds Metropolitan University, 1997.

BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Leeds Polytechnic, 1991.