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The Torinomicon
Algo-generated 16th C woodcuts of demons, printed into a tiny book. The Torinomicon contains a small selection of the demons which inhabit members of the Conservative Party. UPDATE I made 23 copies of an extended…
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Lucky Jim (2021)
During the early days of the pandemic I decided to start reading Ballard. A lot of Ballard. In fact, for many months, exclusively Ballard. Quite why I’d waited so long, I do not know. He…
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Lost In Translation
Enterprising artist pharmapsychotic recently released some code which attempts to ‘reverse-engineer’ text prompts from any given AI-generated image. I could not resist the opportunity to turn the system onto ‘real’ art to see what it…
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Private Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein towers above all others in the field of the philosophy of language. He thought a great deal about the relationship between truth, language and what is truly knowable. I’ve painted him before, with…
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(AI)thenaeum
I’ve recently gained access to Dalle2 and have been investigating its potential. Overall, I am very impressed, though somewhat irritated by their (completely understandable) policy around producing only ‘safe’ images. One interesting feature is the…
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Eye’ll Be Seeing You (2021)
The Prisoner is a cult British television programme from 1967. Created and starring Patrick McGoohan as Number 6, a secret service agent attempting to escape from a mysterious coastal village. I was first exposed to…
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The Other Eric (2021)
This painting is derived from a composite of images Viq generated from photographs of Eric Kleptone, of The Kleptones.
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Orange Norma Jeane (2021)
Inspired by the AI works created for the Orange Marylins series, this is a further transmutation of the photograph of Marylin Monroe, appropriated by Andy Warhol.