Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Morgan, Mireille Mathieu, Catherine Deneuve, Inès de La Fressange, Lætitia Casta or Evelyne Thomas… All these personalities embodied the Republic by becoming the face of Marianne. An emblem of freedom desired by the Convention in 1792 and represented by a woman wearing a Phrygian cap. Today, obvious, a collective of French artists, wants to give a big kick to the anthill in order to give Marianne a new face more representative of French women. The names of Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier may not be familiar to you, but these three young boys have already managed a very nice first attempt three years ago. Estimated at $ 700, their fictional portrait of Edmond Belamy, a picture "painted" by an artificial intelligence program, sold to 432,500 dollars, Thursday, October 25 2018, at Christie's in New York.
A woman representative of all French women created by artificial intelligence
For its new project, the collective has "decided to highlight the French culture and spirit by creating the next performance of Marianne. "An incredible challenge as ambitious as it is electrifying Current wife decided to join forces. "The project "We are Marianne ” therefore consists in collecting images of French women, and asking artificial intelligence to create the French woman representative of all of these women, in their diversity as well as their consistency. The result will not look like any of the photos collected, but the AI will have used each photo for the realization of the final work"explains the collective.
How to participate and send your photo?
Nothing could be simpler to try the adventure. You just need to be a French woman and go to the nousommesmarianne website. With a few clicks, you can send your photo. That the most suspicious be reassured, the images will not be used elsewhere than within the framework of this project. They will not be shared with anyone else and will be deleted at the end of the project. Ready to become the new Marianne? All you have to do is get started, while humming like Michel Delpech: "God ! But that Marianne was pretty […] It will be fine, it will be fine … all life"…
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