Description
What happens when artificial intelligence encounters casual smartphone photography with the authority of a museum curator? This provocative experiment explores the growing phenomenon in contemporary art where wall texts have become more conceptually ambitious than the artworks themselves—the concept superseding the image.
Drawing from an archive of everyday urban snapshots—quiet geometry, awkward signage, fleeting light—photographer [Author Name] submitted unposed, contextless images to ChatGPT 4.0, asking it to interpret each photograph as though it were a significant museum piece. The results are both uncanny and revelatory.
With no knowledge of intention or location, the AI constructed elaborate curatorial interpretations complete with aesthetic readings, historical references, and sociopolitical frameworks that sometimes hit startlingly close to truth, other times wander into delightful absurdity.
Part photography book, part cultural critique, part meditation on meaning-making, this collection examines how interpretation is generated, imposed, and uncovered. It questions authorship, authority, and the uneasy dance between what exists in an image versus what we project upon it.
A timely exploration of machine looking, human looking, and the cultural filters that shape both.
Creator: Robin Mudge
Dimensions: 250mmx 176mm Landscape
Page Count: 68
Paper Type: 200 gsm Silk
Binding Style: Wiro
Covers: Soft
Number of Photos: 31
