Central Park Nightfall

DANIEL AMBROSI (B. 1958)
Central Park Nightfall
LED perimeter-lit dye-sub fabric print
Computational photography and artificial intelligence
72 x 30 x 4 in (182.9 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm)
Executed in 2025. This work is first of an edition of five.

The artist

This picturesque vignette of Central Park at dusk is a detail of a 42-shot panorama originally captured by the artist in April 2013 using their unique computational photography method. In late 2024, the artist applied to this cropping two levels of AI interpretation (via a proprietary super scaled version of Google's DeepDream) at two different scales to create this "inceptionist impression" intended to evoke the visual, visceral, and cognitive experience of this landmark location at that magical time of day when natural light fades and the artificial lights of the city start to emerge. In early 2025, this artwork was executed physically for the first time as an exquisitely-detailed light box expressly for Christie's inaugural AI art auction, Augmented Intelligence.