Palm Trees Are Noise + Print
‘Palm Trees Are Noise’ comprises six artist books. Each corresponds to one of the evolutionary stages within the ‘Palm Trees Are Noise’ project (from 3D models to generated look alikes and staged sceneries). A 26-page essay and its English translation — both accompanied by supplementary visual material — form the fifth publication. This project examines the palm tree as an icon embodying both nature and artificiality and explores how different approaches — from documentation to 3D modeling and AI generation — reveal the complex relationship between reality, representation, and digital noise in contemporary image-making.
What’s included:
- BOOK BUNDLE:
- A Few Generic Palm Trees: 40 pages, 15 illustrations, poem, 15cm x 20cm
- A Few Diffused Palm Trees: 40 pages, 15 illustrations, poem, 15cm x 20cm
- A Few Generated Palm Trees: 40 pages, 15 illustrations, poem, 15cm x 20cm
- A Few Staged Palm Trees: 40 pages, 15 illustrations, poem, 15cm x 20cm
- Palm Trees Are Noise Essay (D): 44 pages, illustrations, 15cm x 20cm
- Palm Trees Are Noise Essay (E): 40 pages, illustrations, 12cm x 17cm
- EDITION PRINT:
Chose your favorite motive from the “A Few Generated Palm Trees” series, pigment inkjet printed on Fine-Art paper, signed (not numbered), Add an image of the desired motif to your purchase inquiry.
More Information:
As an artistic exploration of virtual visual worlds — and generative AI — I remodeled each palm tree depicted in Ed Ruscha’s A Few Palm Trees in 3D, translating them into digital space. These reconstructions became the foundational dataset for all subsequent media-based representations of palms, presented across an interlinked series of 40-page books, each featuring a full set of 15 ‘Generic, Diffused, Generated’ and ‘Staged Palm Trees’.
Credits:
- Concept & Artwork: Markus Oberndorfer
- Texts: Markus Oberndorfer
- Print: Markus Oberndorfer
- © Markus Oberndorfer 2024-2025
Supported by:
- Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Bildrecht, Arctic Paper, Toni Stachel.
