Sleeping by the Dataflow
A program that generates images using artificial intelligence learns to analyze the world based on millions of internet images. It then creates its own version of an image based on what it has “seen.” When asked to generate images based on prompts, the resulting image can be viewed as the cumulative essence of the available imagery on a given topic—which ultimately represents the sum of human behavior.
Following Anja Engelke’s earlier works that embraced photographic history and recreated the photography of Stephen Shore, the artist now uses artificial intelligence as a tool to reinterpret photographic icons in her most recent work. She focuses on highlighting ingrained clichés and social role models.
Anja Engelke uses artificial intelligence to create prompts based on photographs from Alec Soth’s series Sleeping by the Mississippi. Prompts are keywords that describe the image. The same AI then generates images from these prompts. The artificial intelligence interprets the work both in the prompt creation and in the text-to-image generation. The artist neither intervenes in the prompts nor alters the generated images.
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