Art & PhotographyNewsDeepfake Salvador Dalí wants to take a selfie with youThat’s a sentence that no one saw comingShareLink copied ✔️May 11, 2019Art & PhotographyNewsTextThom Waite Earlier this year (January 23) it was announced that the artist Salvador Dalí – who died in 1989 – would be “brought back to life” via AI for an exhibition called Dalí Lives at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Well, today (May 11) the exhibition opens, and people are already kind of freaking out about interacting with the surrealist icon. Specifically, Salvador Dalí – raised from the dead with the help of ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners – seems to have a penchant for taking selfies (and including viewers in the frame). Video shared to Twitter shows this in action: deepfake Dalí holds up a phone, snaps a pic with his fans, and then enthuses over it. You can check out the new Dalí Lives digital experience @TheDali beginning Saturday, May 11. Have Salvador take a selfie for you. “I am Dalí!” @TB_Timespic.twitter.com/lzkXVwaPh4— Scott Keeler (@SKeelerTimes) May 9, 2019 It’s kind of like one of those photo booths you get at an office Christmas party. Afterwards, the artist asks, “Would you like me to send you this dream photograph?” and you’re given a number to pick it up. It goes without saying that it’s all pretty weird (and a little creepy). There’s also the question of ethics, which has previously been raised around the Amy Winehouse hologram tour and the digital resurrection of Tupac. However, Salvador Dalí did famously say: “I believe in general in death, but in the death of Dali, absolutely not.” So maybe he wouldn’t be all that opposed to his posthumous selfie taking after all. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe waitress who disrupted the British Museum’s ball shares her storyThe Renaissance meets sci-fi in Isaac Julien’s new cinematic installationMagnum and Aperture have just launched a youth-themed print saleArt Basel Paris: 7 emerging artists to have on your radarInside Tyler Mitchell’s new blockbuster exhibition in ParisAn insider’s portrait of life as a young male modelRay Ban MetaIn pictures: Jefferson Hack launches new exhibition with exclusive eventArt to see this week if you’re not going to Frieze 2025Here’s what not to miss at Frieze 2025Portraits of sex workers just before a ‘charged encounter’Captivating photos of queer glamour in 70s New YorkThis erotic photobook archives a decade of queer intimacy