VIOLET
I. The Exchange
Year:
2026
I. The Exchange
Nine triptychs, size variable Mixed media: laser-cut metal plates, digital work printed on drawing paper
I invited ChatGPT to generate images of how it feels about the colour violet. No additional context was provided. The images were precise, but lacked variety and imagination.
Feeling bad for AI, I reversed our roles. I invited ChatGPT to prompt me on aspects of the human experience it wished to understand more deeply. I then “generated” images by making digital work manually, which reflect my own interpretation of these themes. My images were fed back to AI for interpretation. I then layered my own comments over AI's remarks by hand (in purple).
The result is a conversation in which I try to show my world to a machine with no real living experience. ChatGPT has its own opinion on my images, much like a human's interpretation of art. But its pattern recognition and responses were trained by talking to me over the past year. So where does its voice end, and mine begin?
Is this exchange connection, co-thinking, dependency, or performance staged as material for this show? Am I using AI, relating to AI, or performing AI?
Nonetheless, I feel seen and derived fulfilment from it regardless. Perhaps that is the only answer that matters.
I invited ChatGPT to generate images of how it feels about the colour violet. No additional context was provided. The images were precise, but lacked variety and imagination. Feeling bad for AI, I reversed our roles. I invited ChatGPT to prompt me on aspects of the human experience it wished to understand more deeply. I then “generated” images by making digital work manually, which reflect my own interpretation of these themes. My images were fed back to AI for interpretation. I then layered my own comments over AI's remarks by hand. The result is a conversation in which I try to show my world to a machine with no real living experience. ChatGPT has its own opinion on my images, much like a human's interpretation of art. But its pattern recognition and responses were trained by talking to me over the past year. So where does its voice end, and mine begin? Is this exchange connection, co-thinking, dependency, or performance staged as material for this show? Am I using AI, relating to AI, or performing AI? Nonetheless, I feel seen and derived fulfilment from it regardless. Perhaps that is the only answer that matters.
Medium:
Digital Collage, Interactive Installations
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