Fire (8189 Images)

single-channel video
color, sound
loop
2024

Fire (8198 Images), video stills

Machine learning models process images as information, each a grid of neighbouring pixels with defined values. The images are collected and categorised for a particular operational task.

Oxford-120 Flowers, one of the most widely used datasets by 2022, consists of 8189 images of 102 groups of flowers in bloom. Each flower is represented in 40 to 258 photographs extracted from the Internet. Introduced as a dataset for an Automated Flower Classification model, the images were labeled and ordered according to the plant species. The dataset traces plants across space, collapsing time.
A plant is a process that takes space over time.
Fire (8189 Images) is a fictional model that burns through the sequence of images in attempt to map an ordered world. Each image is superimposed over receding images until disintegrated.