Lane Last is an artist and video maker based in Martin, Tennessee. He is a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee - Martin in the Department of Visual and Theatre Arts. Lane holds an MFA and a BS - Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with primary concentrations in Painting, Digital Art, Video, and New Media, though he has worked in Film Production, Performance Art. He also has spent six years playing in the bands, “Deyenasoar Feathers” and “Flesh Stretched Over A Monkeys Body”. Lane has been exhibiting his videos, animations, and media works in international venues and competitions for the past 30 years. He has also been exhibiting his paintings in international, national, and regional museums and galleries for the past 34 years. His works can be found in public and private collections across the U.S., Korea, Italy, and Japan.

The work in this series, Machine Interventions, began to develop in March 2020 as I was exploring a machine learning, or artificial intelligence, platform to create new work. After initial experimentation, I chose to create a wholly unique data set of images for training, most of my personal artwork archive from the past thirty-four years including undergraduate and graduate school work and most from my professional studio practice. These images are from the first and second full-length trainings, which selectively curated the data sets to affect the generated visual compositions. Thematically I investigate and explore the ways that human perception has interacted with and has been affected and altered by technology.