When I was originally playing around with AI generators for this assignment, I noticed two things. One, that different generators often have differing art "styles", and two, that these generators really like to pump out images of a lone silhouette standing in some sort of landscape with their face away from the camera, usually a woman. Since this sort of imagery was something I found interesting, I decided to lean into it. Additionally, since these images often evoke a feeling of loneliness in me, I also decided to try to bring a feeling of isolation into the piece as a whole.
For my process, I used a random generator to generate a handful of love poems. However, I asked the generators to dedicate these sonnets to certain objects and abstract ideas rather than people: the sea, the sky, death, and fear. Naturally, these led to rather nonsensical poems that didn't quite fit together, which I then fed into several different AI generators. Then, I glitched my images in multiple ways, mostly text edit and pixel sort, layering the results together to create frames for gifs.
When curating my images, I decided that the story I was ultimately trying to tell was that of a ghost in the machine: a soul trapped in a space in which they were never meant to exist. I personally interpret this theme both literally, as a soul trapped within a computer, and figuratively, as someone trapped in a certain environment or way of thinking that isolates them from the world. To convey this, my images are constantly glitching in the same rhythm, showing an organized chaos, or a constant, itching dissatisfaction. Additionally, there's a recurring motif of a second, ghostly individual, showing a longing for companionship that, for whatever reason, is unattainable. It's all very emo, I won't lie.
I'm very happy with some of these images individually, but I'm not so sure about the collection overall. Because of the random nature of my prompting, I struggled a bit to amass a collection of images with a level of aesthetic cohesion that I was happy with. Part of me wonders if maybe I should've cut some of these images, particularly the 1st, 7th, and 12th ones. Regardless, I did my best considering the limitations of the project, and I suppose I don't necessarily hate the results. I am, however, very excited about all the glitch techniques we learned for this project, and heavily look forward to incorporating them into my work in the future.
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