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“Vanishing of the Genuine interrogates the erosion of authenticity in a hyperreal world. By photographing bones on analog film, processing them through a generative AI model, and regenerating the simulated outputs, I collaborate with technology to question what remains ‘genuine’ when human and machine agencies intertwine.” Simulation of a model of film and digital photos of deer, springbok, blesbok, pig and cow bones with the US flag and the sky in the background. It was trained and generated from a StyleGAN 2 model using analog film photographs taken by the artist. "Vanishing of the Genuine" explores the beauty of bone and sky in life, death and simulation using analog film photography and AI as inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's bones in the New Mexico sky and Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality.