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TV glitch images are fed into AI editing software, forcing the grammar of landscape onto information that resists meaning. A record of the "quasi-photographs" that a machine's visual brain accidentally fabricates.
グリッチ画像をAI画像編集ソフトに入力し、意味を拒む情報に風景の文法を強引に当てはめさせる。マシンの視覚脳が偶発的にでっち上げた「写真擬」の観察記録。
Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean
あの海に見える岩を、弓で射よ
When prompts prefixed with the word "typical" are entered into an image-generating AI, specific social norms, biases, and belief systems become visible. The invisible architecture of reality, as revealed by AI — a metaphysical camera.
画像生成AIに「typical」という語を冠したプロンプトを入力すると、特定の社会規範・偏見・信念体系が可視化される。AIという形而上のカメラが映し出す、見えない典型的世界の類型構造。
Typical World
ティピカルワールド
A TV receiver is deliberately left with poor contact, and the resulting glitch noise is photographed straight. Before a screen stripped of imagery, viewers are driven by the desire to read — and project their own memories and phantoms onto the noise.
TVの受信部をあえて接触不良にし、発生したグリッチノイズをストレートに撮影。偶像を失った画面を前に、鑑賞者は「読み取る欲望」に突き動かされ、自らの記憶と幻影を投影する。
INCIDENTS
偶景
MasDuring a 2017 residency in New York, amid a society convulsed by division and disinformation, digital TV signals were disrupted to generate glitches — electronic disturbances traced into contemporary cave paintings.
2017年のニューヨーク滞在中、分断とフェイクニュースが渦巻く社会のなかで、TVのデジタル信号を乱してグリッチを発生させ、電子の蠢きで現代の洞窟壁画を描いた。
Portraits of the Electric Cavewall
電子的洞窟壁面の肖像
Photo letters addressed to missing family members, made together with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Set adrift on the same social media algorithms that once amplified their persecution — dispatches with no guaranteed destination.
バングラデシュのロヒンギャ難民キャンプで、行方不明の家族宛のフォトレターを制作。迫害を増幅したのと同じSNSのアルゴリズムに乗せて流す、宛先不明の投罎通信。
Letters to You
About Artist

©︎Paolo Pellegrin
美術家/写真家。画像生成AIを「形而上のカメラ」と見立てて意図的に誤用しながら、「見る」ことを支配する不可視のシステムを問う。光学技術、データとメディア、人の認知、社会制度といったブラックボックスが相互に絡み合う循環を、写真の内側から組み立て直す。心理学、公衆衛生、金融、ITを横断したのち報道写真家として活動を開始した。1988年愛知生まれ、東京在住。
主な個展に「Anatomy of Caves」HECTARE(2025)、「Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean」Mynavi Art Square(2024)、「Age of Photon/ INCIDENTS」IMA gallery(2020)。参加展覧会にAuckland Festival of Photography(NZ、2024)、浅間国際フォトフェスティバル(2023)、「Platform 29.8」ANB Tokyo(2022)、KG+ SELECT 2021(2021)、「LUMIX MEETS/ BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6」(2019)など。Amanaとのデジタルヒューマン開発、Forbes JAPANやPrada x IMAなどへのアートワーク提供、AshnikkoのMV日本側プロデュースなど、領域を横断して協働を展開している。
JAPAN PHOTO AWARD・Elisa Medde賞(2024)、TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD・川島崇志賞(2022)受賞。主な出版物に『Typical World』(bookshop M)、『あの海に見える岩を、弓で射よ』(Troublemakers Publishing)。作品は東京都写真美術館に収蔵されている。
Contemporary artist and photographer. Deliberately misusing generative AI as a "metaphysical camera," he interrogates the invisible systems that govern how we see. Working from within photography as a medium, he engages the circuit in which black boxes—optical technology, data and media, human cognition, and social institutions—mutually constitute one another. A background spanning psychology, public health, finance, and IT before beginning his career as a photojournalist grounds his capacity to observe these systems from the outside. Born in Aichi in 1988; based in Tokyo.
Selected solo exhibitions include Anatomy of Caves (HECTARE, 2025), Aim an Arrow at the Rock in the Ocean (Mynavi Art Square, 2024), and Age of Photon / INCIDENTS (IMA gallery, 2020). Group exhibitions include the Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand, 2024), Asama International Photo Festival (2023), Platform 29.8 (ANB Tokyo, 2022), KG+ SELECT 2021 (2021), and LUMIX MEETS / BEYOND 2020 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS #6 (2019). Working across disciplines, he has collaborated with Amana on digital human development, provided artwork for Forbes JAPAN and Prada x IMA, and served as local producer in Japan for Ashnikko's music video.
Awards and selections include JAPAN PHOTO AWARD, Elisa Medde Prize (2024) and TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD, Takashi Kawashima Prize (2022).
His work is held in the collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.


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