La table de Paul (Still Life No. 1)
On automated aesthetics and the post-human still life

La Table de Paul is a machine-generated reinterpretation of the still life genre, produced through a fully synthetic workflow combining generative AI, volumetric inference, and digital fabrication. The work reflects on the historical tradition of still life as a contemplative practice—of staging, observing, and symbolizing objects—now restructured through the lens of algorithmic automation.

Multiple specific generative algorithms function as delegated agents: one to generate imagery from textual prompts; another to compute three-dimensional form from a single image; and a third to translate mesh data into toolpaths for 3D printing. The result is a collection of neutral, non-indexical objects arranged in silent simulation of material culture.

Referencing the computational legacy of Konrad Zuse, the work advances a post-human notion of creativity where machines do not merely accelerate labor but substitute perception, yielding sculptural forms born not of observation, but of inferred memory.

AI, 3D prints
2025