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Your artist name is quite provocative. What's the story behind it?
(Laughs) I wanted something that would make people uncomfortable, just like my art does. AI art is messy, it's biological, it's about creation and emergence. Plus, it's memorable. Nobody forgets meeting someone called Placenta Shake
I was doing traditional digital art, mostly glitch stuff, when the first text-to-image models came out. But I wasn't interested in making pretty pictures. I wanted to push the boundaries of what these systems could do, to find their breaking points. That's where the interesting stuff happens.
Can you talk about your prompting philosophy?
Most people treat prompting like programming – they try to be precise, technical. I treat it like poetry. Sometimes I'll feed the AI a fragment of a dream I had, or strings of emotionally charged words that don't make literal sense. Like "grandmother's perfume dissolving in static" or "memory foam forgetting." The key is to think in terms of emotional resonance rather than literal description. These systems have ingested millions of images – they understand vibes, atmospheres, emotional undertones. I'm more interested in those than in specific objects or scenes.
Your series "Digital Aphasia" caused quite a stir in the art world. What was the concept behind it?
I was fascinated by how AI models handle language they don't quite understand. For that series, I created prompts by running texts through multiple layers of machine translation until they became almost nonsensical, then fed those into the image generator. The results were these haunting, semi-abstract pieces that seem to exist in a space between recognition and confusion |
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Your artist name is quite provocative. What's the story behind it?
(Laughs) I wanted something that would make people uncomfortable, just like my art does. AI art is messy, it's biological, it's about creation and emergence. Plus, it's memorable. Nobody forgets meeting someone called Placenta Shake
How did you get started with AI art?
I was doing traditional digital art, mostly glitch stuff, when the first text-to-image models came out. But I wasn't interested in making pretty pictures. I wanted to push the boundaries of what these systems could do, to find their breaking points. That's where the interesting stuff happens.
Can you talk about your prompting philosophy?
Most people treat prompting like programming – they try to be precise, technical. I treat it like poetry. Sometimes I'll feed the AI a fragment of a dream I had, or strings of emotionally charged words that don't make literal sense. Like "grandmother's perfume dissolving in static" or "memory foam forgetting." The key is to think in terms of emotional resonance rather than literal description. These systems have ingested millions of images – they understand vibes, atmospheres, emotional undertones. I'm more interested in those than in specific objects or scenes.
Your series "Digital Aphasia" caused quite a stir in the art world. What was the concept behind it?
I was fascinated by how AI models handle language they don't quite understand. For that series, I created prompts by running texts through multiple layers of machine translation until they became almost nonsensical, then fed those into the image generator. The results were these haunting, semi-abstract pieces that seem to exist in a space between recognition and confusion |
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Your artist name is quite provocative. What's the story behind it?
(Laughs) I wanted something that would make people uncomfortable, just like my art does. AI art is messy, it's biological, it's about creation and emergence. Plus, it's memorable. Nobody forgets meeting someone called Placenta Shake
How did you get started with AI art?
I was doing traditional digital art, mostly glitch stuff, when the first text-to-image models came out. But I wasn't interested in making pretty pictures. I wanted to push the boundaries of what these systems could do, to find their breaking points. That's where the interesting stuff happens.
Can you talk about your prompting philosophy?
Most people treat prompting like programming – they try to be precise, technical. I treat it like poetry. Sometimes I'll feed the AI a fragment of a dream I had, or strings of emotionally charged words that don't make literal sense. Like "grandmother's perfume dissolving in static" or "memory foam forgetting." The key is to think in terms of emotional resonance rather than literal description. These systems have ingested millions of images – they understand vibes, atmospheres, emotional undertones. I'm more interested in those than in specific objects or scenes.
Your series "Digital Aphasia" caused quite a stir in the art world. What was the concept behind it?
I was fascinated by how AI models handle language they don't quite understand. For that series, I created prompts by running texts through multiple layers of machine translation until they became almost nonsensical, then fed those into the image generator. The results were these haunting, semi-abstract pieces that seem to exist in a space between recognition and confusion |
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