/imagine prompt: a swimming pool for artist

  • Dates
    2023 - 2024
  • Author
  • Location Seoul, South Korea

The series /imagine prompt: a swimming pool for artist is generated by an AI image generator program Midjourney, and it is an assemblage of personal imagination toward artists’ swimming pool as the title literally indicates.

The series /imagine prompt: a swimming pool for artist is generated by an AI image generator program Midjourney, and it is an assemblage of personal imagination toward artists’ swimming pool as the title literally indicates. The title is literally the command used to make this series. The author wrote down the command as simple as possible to let AI use its creativity. Creativity. It is not an exclusive human property anymore. Create means to make new thing based on accumulated data. When it comes to data, AI has already been overwhelmed individuals. So the author strived to imagine posthumous and contemporary artist’s swimming pool in this work. The author spent several days and nights to select photographs. Some photographs came out meaningfully, and others not. The process repeated over and over. The author spent most of time to select images. Finally, more than a hundred photographs came out as final results.

https://iamhay.online/a-swimming-pool-for-artist

The photographer was still her, not AI, as she was still final decision-holder. Who press the shutter button is not important anymore. Shutter releases are even unnecessary. Concept and context became everything. Before subject matter, the author focused on what types of photographs can only exist in AI world, not in the real world. In this point, it joins with her point of view: one has to choose the best medium to express certain message. She always think of ‘what kind of subjects can be only available or the most meaningful by taking photographs?’. And she has to consider one more thing ― which one is the best subject matter Then she finally came up with the topic ― swimming pools of admired artists. There's also a handmade book case with this Ai photo book. It is made by ceramic tiles, silicon, paper clay, and hard paper. The contrast between the Ai book and the handmade case makes this project look more aesthetic.

© iamhay - Book Cover & Handmade Ceramic Book Case
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Book Cover & Handmade Ceramic Book Case

© iamhay - Book, Book Case, and other Books
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Book, Book Case, and other Books

© iamhay - Book cover floating in the water and a ladybug (I)
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Book cover floating in the water and a ladybug (I)

© iamhay - the first page (QR code)
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the first page (QR code)

© iamhay - two physical books floating in the water
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two physical books floating in the water

© iamhay - spread I (physical)
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spread I (physical)

© iamhay - spread I (digital)
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spread I (digital)

© iamhay - spread II (physical)
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spread II (physical)

© iamhay - spread II (digital)
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spread II (digital)

© iamhay - spread III (physical)
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spread III (physical)

© iamhay - spread III (digital)
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spread III (digital)

© iamhay - spread IV (physical)
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spread IV (physical)

© iamhay - spread IV (digital)
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spread IV (digital)

© iamhay - Book cover floating in the water and a ladybug (II)
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Book cover floating in the water and a ladybug (II)

© iamhay - Book Case, Two Physical Books, and a Dummy Book
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Book Case, Two Physical Books, and a Dummy Book

© iamhay - the back cover
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the back cover

© iamhay - Book Cover in the dark
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Book Cover in the dark

© iamhay - group exhibition installation (I)
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group exhibition installation (I)

© iamhay - group exhibition installation (II)
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group exhibition installation (II)

© iamhay - five selected physical artworks
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five selected physical artworks