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A Machine View of the Garden

A Machine View of the Garden

Paul Lindsay

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In 1964, Leo Marx published his book The Machine in the Garden, whose title acts as a metaphor for the recurring intrusion of technology into the pastoral landscape. Since that time, global changes in nature and culture driven by technology continue to advance at an amazing pace. This contributes to increasing erosion of rural environments and the machine becoming a constant unavoidable presence.

Of the technologies that have promised so much, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is among the most intriguing. In particular, deep learning, which is a component of AI when trained with millions of images to recognise and classify objects, can also generate new images that have never existed.

With this ability to generate images in mind, I wanted to depict the Machine in the Garden metaphor through the synthetic lens of a deep learning model. What sort of image does a model generate when provided with a photograph of an industrial landscape containing factories, structures or machinery and a descriptive sentence as a prompt. Put somewhat differently, how does the machine visualise the garden.

48 pages in color/bw. Stapled, cover 250 grams, interior 100 grams. 179mm x 248mm

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About — Paul Lindsay is a visual artist originally from Ireland, now based in the Netherlands. His work explores the blurred boundaries between ethics, technology, AI, and the environment. Through photography, AI-generated imagery, poetry, and mixed media, he examines how industry reshapes both natural and inner landscapes. His projects often focus on what hides in plain sight, revealing subtle tensions between the human, the animal, and the machine. He holds an MA in Photography from Falmouth University.

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