“Slow Down Time: A Collaborative Art Intervention Exploring the Relationship Between Text, Image and Machine” presented by Goodwin
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Session Title:
- Time (pictorials/visual essays)
Presentation Title:
- Slow Down Time: A Collaborative Art Intervention Exploring the Relationship Between Text, Image and Machine
Presentation Subtheme:
- Speculative practices
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Abstract:
The Slow Down Time project is an aesthetic and technical investigation of the procedural outcomes of generative AI routines as both standalone works of visual culture and speculative practice of Large Language Models (LLM). As an exercise in new media curation, the assemblage operates as both a performative and conceptual response to LLM black-box processes in the form of a slow-media / slow-synthesis art intervention.
The archive documents the dialogue between the text-to-image service Midjourney and a network of twenty-three prompt authors. Intentionally meditative the intention was to catalogue fragments of the curatorial dialogue enabling contemplation within latent diffusion spaces.
The curatorial process for Slow Down Time archive was also an exercise in technical transparency and cultural excavation, employing the Discovery model of inquiry-based study to “unpack” technical, cultural and historical tendencies within the archive. Cataloguing the development of the Midjourney “house style” over a specific period of time was also an important goal of the project.
