SYNTHETIC VISION / CONSTRUCTED MEMORY
Spanning more than fifteen years of image-making, Synthetic Vision / Constructed Memory brings together photography, digital transformation and AI-generated imagery to explore how perception, memory and visual culture are changing in the age of technology.
Moving between observation and construction, the book reflects on photography at a moment when images are no longer shaped by cameras alone. Algorithms increasingly participate in how images are created, altered, interpreted and remembered.
Echoing the documentary precision of August Sander, the conceptual strategies of John Baldessari and the abstraction of contemporary image culture, Erwin Van den Brande’s work questions what it means to see when photography, computation and artificial intelligence increasingly overlap.
The book moves between analogue and digital photography, constructed imagery and generative processes. Across these different approaches, recurring themes emerge: memory and identity, absence and presence, reality and reconstruction, human perception and machine vision.
Rather than presenting AI as a separate medium, Synthetic Vision / Constructed Memory places it within a longer evolution of photographic image-making. The result is both an artist’s book and a document of a rapidly shifting visual era.
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Designed by Tina De Souter and published in collaboration with Uitgeverij Komma, the book is produced in Belgium by Antilope De Bie using an eight-colour printing process.
176 pages
24 × 30 cm
Hardcover, bound in Wibalin Sky Blue
Printed on Munken Crystal Rough fine art paper
ISBN 9789083597393
24 × 30 cm
Hardcover, bound in Wibalin Sky Blue
Printed on Munken Crystal Rough fine art paper
ISBN 9789083597393
The book will be officially released in October 2026 and will retail at €65.
A signed version of the book can be ordered for €65 (plus shipping costs) by sending an email through the link below.
The book will also be available through selected art and photography bookshops in Belgium and the Netherlands.