Matt Groh

By training a generative deep neural network on thousands of images people provided all over the world, we conjure phantasms into being. In doing so, we commemorate those missing via algorithmic omission.

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs. Inspired by Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, Deep Angel is an interactive AI designed to both share a glimpse into the future of media manipulation and explore the aesthetics of absence. What happens when anything can be auto-disappeared in images?