The World Mind Awakens: Tonal Experiment
Made using Midjourney and Runway ML Gen-2 to experiment with a look and feel for my forthcoming video essay “The World Mind Awakens: Electric Media from Telegraph to Television”.
Growing up in the golden age of home movies, the medium of VHS imprinted itself deep on my psyche. Not just the movies which I surreptitiously watched, but the accompanying box art itself with their dumb taglines and hyperbolic blurbs. Between the ages of around 10 and 14, when made up stories with toys I would draw VHS covers for them. These stories were pastiches of hits and schlock of the era refracted through the prism of my adolescent mind. True to the creative process itself, I stole and recombined ideas, plagiarised and remixed, to the point of producing ideas and stories that were almost new. In late 2022 I decided to try and reinvent them with Generative AI as a way to learn what was possible with the technology.
Garden of Dionysus
A series based on a quote by feminist art historian Camille Paglia.
Understanding Media
I've been taking part in the Understanding Media course run by the McLuhan Institute. These were made in homage to McLuhan's old design collaborator Quentin Fiore.
Knowledge Workers
To decorate our office at the Inviqa HQ, I generated hundreds of images to try and depict what it is like working in UX and technology in the early 21st century.