Born in Munich in 1957. Albert Schaeffer, professionally known as parus, is a professional AIgrapher dedicated to the dialogue between human imagination and artificial intelligence.
His work has been exhibited in major cultural centres across Europe and beyond — from Paris, Venice and Amsterdam to New York and Dubai.
In his practice of AIgraphy, the artist transforms from a traditional executor into an initiator: he delivers no finished blueprints, but sets elemental impulses about light, proximity and atmosphere. The AI functions as a resonating body that absorbs these impulses and translates them into phenomenological forms.
In "The Invisibles" I explore the essence of human connection in the digital age through faceless, androgynous figures in monochrome worlds. The series challenges the "transparency society" and liberates the figures from individual attributes, transforming them into universal archetypes.
Facelessness serves as an act of liberation from the compulsion of self-presentation and of resistance against the digital exploitation of the self. It enables the reclamation of mystery and reveals the longing for warmth and connection in an alienated existence.
AIgraphy redefines the artistic act as an explorative dialogue, in which I become the initiator and the AI functions as a resonating body for elemental impulses about light, proximity and distance. The emergence of the unforeseeable flows into the process — I do not give commands to the AI, but elemental impulses. The result is not entirely predetermined, but an ontological search that aims to uncover the essential.
The "Fourth Reduction" marks a historic caesura: after abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art, it is now human authorship itself that is reduced, creating space for autonomous configurations by the AI. The figures — in matte porcelain that unites permanence and fragility — become timeless monuments of human existence that resist the digital smoothness.
"Facelessness is a resistance against the digital exploitation of the self. It allows the figures simply to be — as pure, vulnerable human beings, liberated from the compulsion to be someone specific."
The series uses AIgraphy as an explorative dialogue between human intuition and artificial intelligence. The artist parus does not give commands to the AI, but elemental impulses about light, proximity and atmosphere. The AI functions as a resonating body that translates these impulses into phenomenological forms.
"What remains of a human being when all surfaces have been stripped away?"
The Invisibles is a radical erasure of individuality against the transparency society. The series liberates the figures from curated identities and transforms them into universal archetypes. This act reclaims the mystery of being and creates a protected space for intimacy.