Dalle's Aimy
TZUSOO in collaboration with DALL·E 2
2024
Series
Neon Glass, UV Print on Stainless Steel Box
50 x 50 x 15 cm
Neon Glass, UV Print on Acrylic Box
120 x 120 x 20 cm
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Cheongju, Cheongju, South Korea
Photo by Hong Choelki
TZUSOO visualizes the (adversarial) relationship between humans and Al over generation or creation. The artist created a virtual influencer Aimy at the request of a record company. She has been watching Aimy operate in the virtual world and observing the phenomena that result from Aimy's activities. The artist then fed a generative Al program the characteristics and keywords she had pondered while building Aimy. A generative Al program DALL·E 2 mediates the artist's description of Aimy's characteristics and proposes new images. Aimy created by DALL·E 2 often outdoes TZUSOO own creation and is more Aimy-like. Observing the generative algorithm's presentations of Aimy, she foresees a hopeless battle against Al. Her work "Dalle's Aimy(2024)" questions the role of the artist in the face of advances in generative Al. By juxtaposing DALL·E 2's depiction of Aimy with the 19th-century invention of the neon sign, "Dalle's Aimy" presents a new type of art outside the artist's purview. Aimy's glowing tears convey both liberation and loss, becoming a ray of 'generation' that cuts across humans and Al.
Text | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju