School of Fine Art / Master of Fine Art / Sebastian Lendenmann / Psychological Patterns: A Misrecognition Study, After Rorschach,2025 & Rorschach Studies, 2025

Psychological Patterns: A Misrecognition Study, After Rorschach,2025 & Rorschach Studies, 2025

Psychological Patterns: A Misrecognition Study, After Rorschach,2025 stages a collision between machine perception and human psychology by feeding the series Rorschach Studies, 2025 into a contemporary object detection system via script (custom code). The annotations—generated through CLIP, a detection method similar to that used by ChatGPT and guided by a curated list of artwork descriptors provided by myself—label the inkblots with absurd and sometimes contradictory identifications, rarely recognising them for what they are. Out of my 19 Rorschach images, only one detection run returned the label “Rorschach pattern,” and even then, only partially. The rest offer strange guesses and act as a display of how machine hallucinations are rendered as certainty.

 

Psychological Patterns- A Misrecognition Study, After Rorschach, 2025

72 stained A4 sheets of paper 1.5 x 2.4 m

Rorschach Studies, 2025

Water & flour paste with dye ink A4 paper

Rorschach Studies, 2025
Rorschach Studies, 2025
Rorschach Studies, 2025
Rorschach Studies, 2025
Rorschach Studies, 2025
Psychological Patterns- A Misrecognition Study, After Rorschach,2025

72 stained A4 sheets of paper 1.5 x 2.4 m