Aya Shabbar
Aya Shabbar (b. 1997) is a Generative Artist and Machine Learning Researcher who works with systems of knowledge of how technologies are created in order to better understand the world. She is particularly interested in ideas around measurement and quantification along with Quantum Computing and how this relates to the natural world, particularly Gender and Human Identity. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly datasets, to create new and unusual narratives. Shabbar holds a B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering at Tishreen University, she is currently working to proceed into her Master's degree, specializing in a dual major: Quantum Computing & Artificial Intelligence. Aya's work explore grotesques and humans, through surreal forms and textures, highlighting humans as major themes, by experimenting at the intersection of traditional media, deep learning, and generative computer code along with using paintings as her basic medium. At the beginning of 2020, Aya started working in Generative Art. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions around Latakia and the U.S., including Walk Bye Exhibition of 2021, New York, Candelabra 10th, and Candelabra 12th local visual art exhibitions. In addition, she had a participation at ARTECH Conference on Applied Computing, with a Research Paper on Convolution Neural Networks: Intersection between Deep Learning and Image Processing in Computational Art. Her latest participation was with Leonardo Rebooted, participating with a project that combines both Quantum Computing & AI. Aya's passion is in creating an intersection between technology and art; a new vision, using the power of Artificial Intelligence. Shabbar lives and works in Latakia, Syria.
You The Living
You The Living (print files on server)
The work is an intersection of real enthusiastic art and computer algorithms, interpreting and studying aspects of human views to death and life. The project is inspired by the multidisciplinary artist Tara Sellios, who previously have studied the same aspect through photography. The project; therefore, articulates the totality of existence, focusing heavily on the broad themes of life and death. I believe that death has always possessed a significant presence within the history of art, ranging from altarpieces to the work of the Dutch still life painters. Manifesting melancholic themes with beauty and precision, as these artists did, results in an image that is seductive, forcing the viewer to look, despite its apparent grotesque and morbid nature. Through these images, I aspire to make apparent the restlessness of a life that is knowingly so temporary and vulnerable. More precisely, my work is an absurdist take on the everyday foibles of human nature. It couples this iconic visual style with a meticulous eye for composition through the lens of the digital algorithmic computational code to yield a brilliant succession of dreamlike tableaux. It serves up a series of immaculately conceived vignettes of appalling death and life, raising big philosophical questions of thoughts, sympathy and purpose in an uncaring world.
