Collage Works
In this ongoing series, AI is tested and positioned as a collaborator, where text-to-image prompts generate digital imagery that is then juxtaposed with archival and documentary material. The works explore and reflect on the awe of technology, using processes of generation and recontextualisation to examine how images are produced, circulated, and understood within contemporary visual culture. Referencing the cinematic language of influential filmmakers such as Werner Herzog and Stanley Kubrick, the series draws on their capacity to frame technological wonder alongside unease, creating a dialogue between historical documentation, artificial image-making, and the evolving conditions of perception.
The technological sublime can be understood through expanded media theory as the experience of computational, networked, and algorithmic systems that exceed human scale and perceptual control (Manovich, The Language of New Media; Cascone, “The Aesthetics of Failure”).
'Film Directors Studio Lounge' Collage. Paper, AI text to Image. Artist M O'Donnell 2024
'California Bedroom' Collage. Paper, AI text to Image. Artist M O'Donnell 2024
'Werner Herzog Investigates P.Doig's Studio' Collage. Paper, AI text to Image. Artist M O'Donnell 2024
'L.A. Poolside' Collage. Paper, AI text to Image. Artist M O'Donnell 2024 is caption text.
'Architectural Utopias' Collage. Paper, AI text to Image. Artist M O'Donnell 2024