Lost on eBay
“Lost on eBay (Antique Tintype Photo of a Pretty Young Girl with a Large Doll ~ Vintage)”, unique sequentially generated images (1 through 66) from eBay seller’s description. Currently on exhibition at the Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT)
I lost the bid to win this image on eBay.
I wondered if ai-generators could create this image for me by feeding it the word description for the image provided by the eBay seller. These 66 images are the results provided for that description, generated by WOMBO Dream ai app.
As the artist I am the intermediary and collaborator with the eBay seller’s (endlesspa) written description and WOMBO Dream’s image generation from this written description.
a generation generated.
These images are generated based on two artificial neural networks, VQGAN and CLIP, that work together to create images based on word prompts provided by the input person.
VQGAN is a neural network used to generate images that look similar to other images. CLIP is a neural network trained to determine how well a text description fits an image. CLIP provides feedback to VQGAN on how best to match the image to the text prompt. VQGAN adjusts the image accordingly and passes it back to CLIP to check how well it fits the text. This process is repeated a few hundred times, resulting in the ai-generated images.
even the ink denies ai
This image is the result of a jammed printer continuously printing a diptych print of these exhibition images. Discovering this, I guided the ink to "cry" down the remaining unprinted paper. This print is the original.
@ Kirk’s Grocery
Easily Discarded #2 (glass negative for darkroom printing) black pigment print on transparency film, cracked glass
(titled what they encase) silver gelatin (double weight Hahnemuhle fibre) prints made from product packaging molds