Slow Down Time
Keywords: Digital Poetics, Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Engineering, Midjourney, Archive Fever
People / organizations involved:
Adam Brown
,
Carly Sheil
,
Geert LOVINK
,
Henri van Noordenburg
,
Ingo Petzke
,
Jack Latimore
,
James Carey
,
Jen Webb
,
Jennifer Perkin
,
Lani Motiekaitis
,
Lev Manovich
,
Maisy Goodwin
,
Michelle Hall
,
Mitch Goodwin
,
Raul Posse
,
Ron McBurnie
,
Ruth Gardner
,
Sally Breen
,
Sarah-Mace Dennis
,
Sean Lowry
,
Sean Redmond
,
Tyne Sumner
,
Wajeehah Aayeshah
,
Wendy Haslem
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. Large Language Models (LLM) are trained on gigabytes of text-image pairs, a form of annotated archive scraped from the Internet and dutifully, if not slavishly, labelled by humans. Slow Down Time is an attempt – using curatorial and literary methods – at a conceptual response to that archive.
Duration: 01.08.2022 - ongoing