Agustin Diocares
A Breeze
An industrial fan stands as the original object. I paint the fan, the first copy. I photograph the painting and project that image back onto both the painting and the fan, a copy of a copy. Then I feed the photograph into an AI video generator. The model animates the fan into motion, a copy of a copy of a copy. In front of this loop, a real leaf flutters in the wind. The work moves through layers of mediation: object → painting → photograph → generative simulation → projection. With each translation, the fan shifts further from use and closer to prediction. What begins as a functional object becomes image, then data, then a probabilistic animation. The AI does not record the fan spinning. It imagines spin from what it has statistically learned.
Agustin Diocares is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, painting, relational media, and video. His work explores the self, and how technology reshapes identity, reality, and spirituality. He is currently exploring how traditional materials can co-exist with digital technology. Where the analogical lives between the tension of the digital and the human. Agustin earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2023 and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at SUNY New Paltz. He approaches digital systems as materials capable of affect, error, and embodiment. Central to Agustin's practice is an interest in intuitively and play as embodied forms of knowledge. The materials and tools he uses, whether paint, objects, or algorithms, often dictate the direction of the work. Each piece emerges from the process, responding to the moment, allowing flutterings, curiosity, and discoveries to lead the way.