Digital Mitosis: Photography, Machine Learning, and the Art of Mutation

For over a decade GMUNK has been shooting landscapes, people, and the natural world through modified full spectrum cameras, capturing light invisible to the naked eye and transforming it into otherworldly, psychedelic imagery. This visually stunning presentation walks the audience through his infrared practice, from technical foundations and gear setup to color grading in DaVinci Resolve. He will talk about his creative philosophy, and what happens when you change the way light enters the camera.

GMUNK has spent the past two years developing a workflow that takes his full spectrum drone and landscape photography and runs it through a machine learning system to produce living, mutating visual art: biological cells becoming digital ones, landscapes transforming into something closer to a painting by Giger or a scene from Annihilation. Drawing on his background in motion design, holographic film work, and projection mapping, this presentation traces how photography, code, and machine vision can come together to create something genuinely new.

A forward-looking conversation on how photographers and creatives are incorporating AI into their work, exploring the creative, ethical, and practical dimensions of a technology that isn't going anywhere. Grounded in curiosity rather than fear, the panel aims to leave attendees more informed and more empowered.