The Dream of a Machine An Example of the Chiasmatic Image

The article develops an idea of chiasmatic image, interpreted here as a new entity that appears in the world thanks to new digital technology. Endowed with a grammar, this image-language implies a characteristic spectrality which affects the visible-invisible relationship and structures the modalities of fruition. Being an ontological hybrid, this new type of image realize the idea in image, the object in event, the artificial in living. This dream-like image, in this case an artwork by Anna Ridler dedicated to The Fall of the House of Usher, is the result of the interaction between GAN and the author and shows the priority of the category of relation in the relationships between human and artificial intelligence.