#FlintFriday - Silica Alchemy I, II & III (Diffraction Images)

Paul Reilly (2020)

Paul Reilly has created #FlintFriday - Silica Alchemy I, II & III: a beautiful series of diffractive digital studies exploring the recursive intra-action of light, shadows, silica and (artificial) neurons. As Paul describes it…

“In each study (i.e., the tranchet axe, the scraper, and pick), the archaeologist’s analytical gaze upon the impact scars that shaped the flint tools has been radically interrupted midway through the process of capturing their Reflectance Transformation Image portraits, and then subjected to the machinic gaze of a Style Transfer deep neural network, before being rendered as a diffractive image in which the multi-lit flints, and their compound shadows, are seemingly transmuted into backlit stained glass.”

For more information about Paul’s work check out these links:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/pr1r12.page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reilly_(computer_scientist)

https://hcommons.org/members/drpaulreilly/

For links to Paul’s publications, try this link:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-8991