#Montage

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

Gloria Knight Appearing In A Playboy Test Photo Shoot. Photos By Edmund Leja, 1964.

[gcgazette]

Via Gay Cultes/Silvano

[stardustinternational]

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[titleknown]

Gotta say, while I love @mostlysignssomeportents' work, I think I gotta hard disagree with their sentiment that AI art comes "pre-corporatized/gentrified".

Like, that might be true if one treats the one-off images one sees as all you can do with AI art, but from what I've noticed in the people doing what I consider good work with AI art, from @teuthisdreams' work with collage on his most notable comic and general openness about his process, to the layering Shenanigans that @reachartwork does to avoid the Standard AI Art Artstyle, to @therobotmonster's use of good ol fashioned hand-done retouching and photomanipulation and advice on such, the singular image is not the primary artistic use-case for people serious about the tool.

Rather it is that AI art becomes art in its relational capacity, combining with other tools in the nature of Eisensteinian montage and collage, the latter being a bit ironic given the fact that AI on its own isn't really a collage machine like people think it is.

The same way that, say, some stock art for Apple stuff could become the basis for Jerkcity or a piece of stock art of a generic 50s-type guy became the notorious mock-religious-messiah JR "Bob" Dobbs, or how standardized sliders in a video game made the basis for The Final Pam or the Boy-Mayor of Second Life.

Even if the outputs are to be considered generic, the way they are used to relate to other things by the artist, and the way they relate to other things the artist has done, is the way art is found. The humanity is added in the editing and juxtaposition, especially if you're combining it with other mediums.

And I think the way we're trained to treat art as isolated; decontextualized snippets in an algorythmized feed is the actual problem that I think the fears around AI art as an artistic practice are around.

Now, there's a lot to be said about that, from the issue of how the way social media discourages archival/archive-binging is a far greater contributor to the depersonalization of art, to the ways in which algorithms hide artists who can't keep up with them and that needs to be a labor issue we push against.

I have a longer piece on the nature of this that I've got bouncing around in my head that I need to finish after Artfight and Kaijune-in-August at any rate.

But, I think I'll end with the fact that if you're looking for the grungy endearing grassroots jank that Doctorow feels is lacking in the uses of these tools, I think that the best place to look first would be at stuff like this:

[lorlyn-the-demon]

More mermaids : these have been sitting in my photos for almost a year ! Yeah I redid the Malta one as well.

[backinthebottle52]

[starrynightsxo]

billie eilish | black hair edition

[kafkasapartment]

Faites votre choix, 1938. Pierre Jahan. Photomontage.

[skullfuckasswhore]

Beholder

[dailyhomestarfacts]

Fact 39:

Homestar ended up getting getting more money from selling Strong Bad's breakfast burrito on Some Type of Online Auction in an easter egg for the sbemail english paper than selling a shirt of his in sbemail montage

[tikklil]

Since we reached 25k followers (WOW), let me introduce you to my tragic animated lesbians. Watch the full 1 minute short on YT and let me hear some theories on what you think happened to them ✨😔

Here: https://youtu.be/BvEzqk_j__M?si=-6WAOfMOaAHm72ik

[the-cricket-chirps]

Joseph Cornell

Untitled (The Hotel Eden)

c. 1945

[imaginal-ai]

"The Shape of Things" (0002)

(More of The Shape of Things Series)

0001

[the-commonplace-book]

a montage for anyone who says that people just weren't like that back then :)

[starrynightsxo]

Cardan Greebriar Eyeliner Looks...

I just know cardan just loves a good swoosh of eyeliner :p

@sudeinfantasyland <3