Prompt ‘Use this photo [uploaded] to generate a creative Xmas card.’
It’s just an AI generated image, but it’s also a quiet reflection on analogue and digital technologies, handmade images and creative craftsmanship.
Happy Christmas
(My personal seal for printing my name on formal documents. A unique identifier carved for me out of stone when I was in China – the ancient analogue equivalent of a QR code.)
Analogue and Digital Images
The original photograph was taken in the mid 1970’s by Rupert aged about 7yrs. He used a Praktica SLR camera with 400 asa, black and white, Tri-X film. This was developed and printed in the kitchen.
Forty years later the negative was digitised and early Adobe Photoshop was used to generate the positive image. Some years after that the image was again edited with Photoshop to sharpen, remove dust, repair and adjust tones. It was then printed out as an A3 (sepia coloured) print.
Finally, this year, it was uploaded into Gemini (AI) which generated, this distressed Xmas edition, including the text which is published here. Oh, and the coloured lights were put in with a digital iPen using Procreate on an iPad.
Xmas puzzle: If you are a friendly passing art educator, you could consider how to assess this, and what might be the criteria? I haven’t a clue.