Papers by Pamela C. Scorzin
Studi di Estetica, 2024
After briefly discussing ekphrasis’s historical significance and function in the arts and its con... more After briefly discussing ekphrasis’s historical significance and function in the arts and its continued relevance as an effective artistic practice, this essay explores the concept of digital ekphrasis in the age of artificial intelligence and digital image generation. The discussion focuses on popular AI models readily available online, such as Midjourney, Dall-e, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly. By examining prominent examples of AI art or so-called popular “prompt art” – including Refik Anadol’s award-winning and mesmerizing AI project “Unsupervised” (MoMA, New York, 2023) and the viral Midjourney prompt “The Pope wearing a Balencia-ga puffer jacket” (Spring 2023) – the author questions whether we can also speak of a computational ekphrasis in the age of artificial intelligence and AI models as our new co-creative collaborators. Therefore, the essay considers a praxeology of digital ekphrasis, exploring how efficient text instructions for AI models are now used to create compelling images in a new digital aesthetic that affects their global audience.
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IMAGE. Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft. Band 37 (1/2023): Generative Imagery: Towards a ‘New Paradigm’ of Machine Learning-Based Image Production, hrsg. Von Lukas A. R. Wilde, Marcel Lemmes und Klaus Sachs-Hombach, S. 179 - 194, 2023
By Pamela C. Scorzin | This paper examines the impact of AI on modern visual culture, focusing sp... more By Pamela C. Scorzin | This paper examines the impact of AI on modern visual culture, focusing specifically on the design of AI avatars for social media, mixed reality, and the Metaverse. The term “AI imagery” encompasses a variety of AI-generated representations, including prompt engineering. Images produced by advanced AI generators such as Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion raise questions about their nature, reality, and connection to new body concepts and ideologies. As AI-generated images become more (photo-)realistic, their connection to reality and truth becomes less clear. Nevertheless, these synthetic images created from vast amounts of internet metadata are not considered fictional or unreal. Instead, they offer a unique perspective by revealing previously hidden information and sharing it through digital platforms. Consequently, generative images act as meta-images, representing a distinct form of reality in a simulated photo-realistic style (known as “promptography”) that effectively communicates with globally connected communities. Additionally, generative images also serve as operative images, creating a technology-based visual language within a vast platform network. As networked and meta-images, they are capable of constructing and narrating the ‘meta-human’.
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“Kunst als ästhetisches Konsumgut: Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons” in KRITISCHE BERICHTE. Heft 4 (2019): Kunst & Design. Relationen von angewandt und autonom, S. 64-76, 2019
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Christian Bala et al. (Hgg.): Konsumästhetik zwischen Kunst, Kritik und Kennerschaft (= Verbraucherzentrale NRW, Beiträge zur Verbraucherforschung, Bd. 11) (Düsseldorf 2020), S. 73-84., 2020
Modischsaisonale Kooperationen von Luxusmarken mit zeitgenössischen Künstler*innen, wie beispiels... more Modischsaisonale Kooperationen von Luxusmarken mit zeitgenössischen Künstler*innen, wie beispielsweise den beiden globalen "Superkünstlern" Jeff Koons und Yayoi Kusama, forcieren heute eine neue Form des ästhe tischen Konsums, der sich mit individuellen Inszenierungspraktiken und Sammlungslogiken verbindet. Gleichzeitig bereichern die eingesetzten Narra tive "Kreativität" respektive "Kunst" das zeitgenössische Produktdesign, das die Kund*innen nicht nur zum passiven kennerschaftlichen Genuss (ver)führt, sondern sie über die sensualistische Ansprache auch emotionalisiert und zu aktiven Konsumperformanzen-nicht nur auf Social Media-anregt.
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kunsttexte.de, Festausgabe, ed. by Sabine Bartelsheim/ Gora Jain (Sektion KunstDesignAlltag), No. 1, 2022 (7 pages), 2022
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