2024 Still Image Finalists
Khazar Archeological Confabulations
Khazar Archeological Confabulations
Nimrod Astarhan
The project employs machine learning to craft speculative archeological images tied to the artist’s heritage. Using a database of artifacts from a sought-after archeological excavation of the lost Khazar capital, the system generates a vocabulary of mean images of object drawings
artifacts
artifacts
Alex Estorick and Ana María Caballero
A long-form generative AI project that imagines a new token economy where both image and coinage challenge tired histories. This collection of 100 editions sold out promptly and was subsequently named as one of artnet's artworks of the year for 2023.
COGNITIVE CHAOS
COGNITIVE CHAOS
Emi Kusano
COGNITIVE CHAOS is a series of 33 AI-generated images that venture into the nostalgia of a future once imagined, where brains are directly connected to devices—a concept familiar from science fiction but now echoing with new significance.
Neural Fad
Neural Fad
Emi Kusano
"Neural Fad" uses AI to reimagine Tokyo's street fashion history, blending archival photos with imagined subcultures for a retro-futuristic view of style trends from the 1940s to the 2000s, showcasing how AI can alter our memory of fashion.
Fluid Language
Fluid Language
Jaein Lee
Fluid Language envisions a gender-neutral future language from a post-humanistic perspective. Sounds are collected from gender-neutral organisms using bio-sonification techniques, and visualised as a new linguistic system using Génération Dynamique Stochastique.
Untitled (Ideal City)
Untitled (Ideal City)
Michelle Lisa Herman
Algorithmically generated source imagery, oil painted on linen using late 16th century painting techniques
Being Borges
Being Borges
Ana María Caballero
Being Borges is a poetic and (post)photographic recasting of Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero’s "The Book of Imaginary Being," a landmark work of Spanish literature. This twelve-part series begs the question: what's at stake when language becomes literal via the visual?
Paperwork
Paperwork
Ana María Caballero
Paperwork is a performance-based, long-form generative AI collection of digital paper sculptures carved from individual emotional responses to the live poetry of Ana María Caballero. It celebrates the renewed cultural currency afforded to poetry via blockchain provenance.
VALIDERINGSØPPELET
VALIDERINGSØPPELET
Adam Peacock
VALIDERINGSØPPELET is a large format drawing looking critically at the entangled relationships between new media, artificial intelligence, genetics and human culture, developed from a major research agenda developed with PRAKIS Oslo and The Vigeland Museum
It is what it is
It is what it is
Marcel Schwittlick
A series of analogue luminograms created using a digital plotter. These works pay homage to the concrete photography movement, an art form that seeks freedom from representation.
Blind Camera
Blind Camera
Diego Trujillo Pisanty
Blind Camera creates images using sound instead of light while inquiring about bias in AI. The device uses a custom-made artificial neural network to convert sound into image. It was trained with data from Mexico City restricting its interpretations of the world to this locale.
le travail des rêves
le travail des rêves
aurèce vettier
aurèce vettier presents "le travail des rêves" for Lumen Prize 2024, translating dreams into 100 AI-generated, low-resolution images, then oil paintings. Each piece blurs human-AI boundaries, inviting viewers to engage with their own memories.
Memories of Qilin
Memories of Quilin
Emily Xie
An algorithmic art series inspired by traditional East Asian art. The work explores the concept of folklore, inviting viewers to interpret elusive forms verging on representation. As with the stories passed on through generations, each piece is imagined, organic, and ever-in-flux
Interwoven
Interwoven
Emily Xie
An code-based series exploring textiles, and the relationship between the computational and handmade through a distinctive patchwork style. The algorithm gives rise to creature-like forms in order to embody the narrative elements so integral to the tradition of quilt-making.