Paradising is an artwork by Zhang Zhan presented as part of Fabrica Frame Vol.2, the second collection of digital artworks created by artists taking part in the Fabrica Residency at Fabrica, the research centre set up in Treviso, Italy following the vision of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani. The launch follows the release of Fabrica's first collection, Fabrica Frame.
Trained with images tagged with the keyword paradise scrapped from public domain archive, this video artwork seeks to investigate the historical imaginaries of paradise through exploration of the latent space of machine learning generative adversarial network algorithms.