When art and technology create authentic copies

Helin is a Carrara marble sculpture produced from 3D scans of 120,000 busts from all eras. Alain Herzog/EPFL - From 17 September 2021, EPFL Pavilions will host an exceptional exhibition, "Deep Fakes: Art and Its Double". Organised by EPFL and the University of Lausanne, it immerses the public in the depths of artistic and cultural doubles, thanks to artificial intelligence and the latest scientific imaging technologies. A portrait of Rembrandt that is neither quite the same nor quite another, a real Picasso that belongs to a community of 25,000 Internet users, an interactive 3D walk on the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris from Assassin's Creed, a virtual golden calf on its pedestal or my identity impersonated by a hologram controlled by artificial intelligence. The exhibition Deep Fakes: Art and Its Double literally immerses us in the transcendent universe of "cultural deep fakes", apparent copies, assumed doubles or inspired creations, made possible by cutting-edge technologies in imaging, virtual, augmented or mixed reality, and artificial intelligence. The exhibition will open on 17 September 2021 and will be on view - absolutely - until 6 February 2022 at EPFL Pavilions on the EPFL campus in Lausanne. "The exhibition is the culmination of several years of observation of new creative practices in the world of information technology.