As a fan of yours, I am curious how you use the thousands of generative images you've been making. Are these simply like your own private personal art gallery? Or do you find them useful in your other work? Or are they trivial things you share with friends?
Those are large prints made of assemblages of hundreds of individually generated images which I then arrange in Photoshop (many hours of work, fwiw). I have several more in production (in various stages of building/proofing/editing), a couple that I abandoned, and thousands of images waiting in the wings. I also have over 1,000 early images that are weird, wonderful things I don’t know what to do with yet. Some I composited from 2-5 images into one, but I’m still not sure (though I have some great prints of weird /beautiful shit). And yes, I’ve used generated images for personal party announcements, the main image of these substack posts—oh, and I made a little story out of some which I posted on Instagram @bantjes. Mostly to me they are raw material to make other things with.
Those are fabulous! Inspirational. (I missed them 'cause they did not show up when I looked at https://bantjes.com/work/category/portfolio/) And BTW, I agree with your analysis. These regurgitations are rare, and there are easier ways to find copyrighted material.
As a fan of yours, I am curious how you use the thousands of generative images you've been making. Are these simply like your own private personal art gallery? Or do you find them useful in your other work? Or are they trivial things you share with friends?
See the first 5 images at https://marianbantjes.com/
Those are large prints made of assemblages of hundreds of individually generated images which I then arrange in Photoshop (many hours of work, fwiw). I have several more in production (in various stages of building/proofing/editing), a couple that I abandoned, and thousands of images waiting in the wings. I also have over 1,000 early images that are weird, wonderful things I don’t know what to do with yet. Some I composited from 2-5 images into one, but I’m still not sure (though I have some great prints of weird /beautiful shit). And yes, I’ve used generated images for personal party announcements, the main image of these substack posts—oh, and I made a little story out of some which I posted on Instagram @bantjes. Mostly to me they are raw material to make other things with.
Those are fabulous! Inspirational. (I missed them 'cause they did not show up when I looked at https://bantjes.com/work/category/portfolio/) And BTW, I agree with your analysis. These regurgitations are rare, and there are easier ways to find copyrighted material.
Thank you!
Great piece Marian! Thanks for sharing.