Category: Iconophobia
-
Wild Images (Other Douros)
A nostalgia of my own I use generative artificial intelligence to create fictional images of the Douro as an interdimensional region, intersected by extremely advanced technologies, spacecraft, and robots – yet poor, peripheral, and ruined. The aim is not to depict the region as it might have been but to construct images of what it…
-
Generative AI and the fear of images
This communication is about fear and response — i.e. iconophobia and iconoclasm. The starting point is online artificial intelligence tools such as Midjourney AI, Dall-e, or Stable Diffusion. These platforms generate images from natural language, the so-called “prompts,” in a “text to image” scheme. The paper is divided into two parts. The first argues that…
Unseen by Design 