Artificial Renderings I
Kaitlyn Elphinstone’s Artificial Renderings series unsettles viewers’ expectations by employing AI-driven software to generate a startling body of images that subtly distort the source photographs from which they originate. Appliqued and embroidered elements further complicate the visual and material registers of the artist’s images, which include a panoramic harbour scene and a group of figures aboard a sailing vessel that appears to be an inexact facsimile of a Caymanian catboat. Detailed inspection reveals a host of further anomalies, producing in the viewer the uncanny effect of both strangeness and familiarity in equal measure.
About the Artist
Kaitlyn Elphinstone
b. 1985
Kaitlyn Elphinstone is an interdisciplinary artist who works in digital media and assemblage. She studied visual art and art history at the University of Toronto and has a master’s degree in arts policy and management from Birkbeck College, University of London. She has coordinated several local arts festivals and specialises in cultural communications and arts administration. Elphinstone was recognised with a Cayman National Cultural Foundation Silver Star for Creativity (2016) and is a founding member of the contemporary artist collective C4. NGCI exhibitions include The Persistence of Memory (2011), Art of Assemblage (2013), Metamorphoses (2014), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), Upon the Seas (2017), Revive: Contemporary Caymanian Craft (2017), and Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019).
