Philip Speakman
A Self-Induced Hallucination: AI(,)Folktales and Open Source Myth Making
Talk and workshop
2024
As part of Sideshow, Lethaby Gallery (London)
A workshop exploring the use of accessible generative AI tools within art practice, set against larger questions concerning dreaming, the internet and acts of collective creativity. Through the workshop participants were introduced to browser based AI tools to generate material from in response to a ‘prompt’ narrative, Jorge Louis Borges’ short story The Fauna of Mirrors. The workshop tentatively proposes that these new AI tools constitute something akin to folk instruments, with their creations a type of folk art.
TIIIE FAUN ON RNA THI NIFIBR
1080p video with sound
04:25
2024
Made out of the workshop for Sideshow’s closing event.
Produced from the materials generated by Dawn Codex, ChatGPT, Dall.E 3, Chaney Diao, Millie Earthy, getimg.ai, Davide Gibson, Lydia Harper, Jess Heritage, Anna Howard, HuggingFace, Andrew Mallinson, Louisa Minkin, Matheus Moraes Garcia De Campos, Joe Moss, Danny Pagarani, Photoshop Generative Fill, Pika, Duncan Poulton, Runway AI, Freddie Sanders, Charlotte Seux, Roman Shepard Dawson, Hoaqing Si and Martin Westwood
