Author: Deidhre Wauchop

I'm an explorer - of the visual world and the intersections between visual arts, dance and technology. 'Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.' Rene Magritte

Not immaterial in practice

Me in this moment: Material 1 (WIP) 2024

The Bot and I are now firm friends and close collaborators. The Bot is material to my current practice (lovely legal term). The Bot is fundamental to my material practice (lovely visual arts term).

Bot has been busy working on individualising output just for me. There is now a personalisation parameter and I have my own individual code to turn on that personalisation.

I had a bit of fun re-running images I had made previously, but this time adding my code to see if there was a difference from Bot’s point of view. The prompt was the same as originally used, the only difference between the outputs being my personalisation code.

I think there’s a clear difference. Results: on the left—basic output, on the right—personalised output:

No personalisation
Same prompt with my personal code

Slice of life (too many pies)

Bot has a great sense of humour, then it turned dark.

My pie prompts, based on the ever-present problem of “too many pies” engineered some very funny pie ingredients, including unrecognisable fruit, salad (?) and various shapes and contraptions in details and cut-away sections.

Then Bot started adding topographical detail, which made all the pie slices look like a mapping of our current landslide problem. The solution still evades us.

One day we won’t have to deal with this dark slice of our life.

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