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Information about these islands was fed to a machine learning algorithm – a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system – which had been trained  using satellite photographs taken from Google Earth. Based on its training, the algorithm reproduced  the erroneous islands as their own ‘satellite photographs’, resulting in Google Earth look-alike images  of non-existent places. In its ambiguity, the work enquires into the consequences of systems that determine ‘reality’, whilst inviting viewers to fantasise about unknown corners of the world that sit somewhere between fact and fiction.\n\nLiliana Farber, a Uruguayan artist based in New York, has long been interested in how history, photography and geography are enmeshed in the space between our online and offline worlds. Her work redefines the boundaries between the virtual and the physical, gilding centuries of time into richly layered images that speak to themes of knowledge, trust and truth. Farber’s approach presents an incisive contemplation of the fallibility of human perception and the malleability of computational photography. On the one hand, she questions the trust placed in geographic information systems and the images they produce, meanwhile drawing a parallel between the colonial endeavour to map the world and the corporate lens through which ‘big tech’ filters representations of global space. On the other hand, Farber creates expansive images that exploit notions of time and scale, providing escapism from our hyper-connected planet in the endless possibilities presented by an imagined, eerily disconnected world. She draws attention to the frameworks that disseminate and control access to knowledge, seeing mapping as a language through which to apprehend the universality of land and truth.  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