On 9 August 2022, TOPO launched a new season of programming on the theme of fluidity with the generative work Selfgen by Quebec artist Marion Schneider (elle/iel). The work was exhibited simultaneously on the TOPO and Mutek websites for a month, as part of the festival's virtual section. Mutek of 2022. TOPO has decided to continue exhibiting Selfgen by a window projection in November and December 2022. On Thursday 17 November at 5pm, at the launch of the video installation, the web section of Selfgen was available on a large touch screen.
Selfgen evokes the idea of queer identity and self-representation through advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning processes. Working with a database of over 500 selfies Marion Schneider teaches an artificial intelligence algorithm (GAN) to create new images of herself from the personal data accumulated on her mobile phone. By manipulating the learning parameters and the images provided, an infinite number of self-portraits are generated on demand, whose abstraction evokes fluidity, impermanence and ambiguity.