From melancholy to despair : Essential emotion or Claire Silver's sentient machine?

From melancholy to despair : Essential emotion or Claire Silver’s sentient machine?

A rich text, characteristic of Claire Silver's construction of the mythology of her collaboration with AI, a hybrid of conceptual art, speculative philosophy, and emotional intimacy with technology, triggers me to speak.She didn't actually "invent" anything in the sense of an exclusive process.Concept : “qualia” – refers to the subjective ...
The Algorithmic Female: Beauty as Violence

The Algorithmic Female: Beauty as Violence

AI reproduces the male gaze and industrial beauty. I create images to dismantle the illusion of innocence. The figures that emerge in my work are not portraits, but mirrors of a collective hallucination — the way Western desire projects fragility, submission, and exotic melancholy onto the female body. My so-called ...
Disrupting AI out of curiosity, Priority sadness

Disrupting AI out of curiosity

Out of curiosity, I experimented with disrupting AI picture generation, creating chaos in the process which is always thrilling. As my fluidity in art continues, I will return to the discipline of AI. This is how my work has evolved into alternative photographs that challenge traditional AI. I have realized ...
Alice Odilon-Manifesto for the Apparently Passive-Zvarte and Yestere

Silent Dynamite: The Rebellion Beneath Appearances

At first glance, these portraits of apparently passive vintage women conform to the conventions of 19th-century femininity: composed, still, framed as if ornamental. Their gazes do not seduce like pin-ups, nor do they promise the docile sweetness of the bourgeois salon. They are, on the surface, the embodiment of restraint ...
Alice Odilon-Incertitude des genres-Artem

Gender Fluidity

In L'Incertitude des Genres, I situate the body as a site of both fragility and defiance. These images, taken in the dim solitude of the forest, present figures that resist binary codification. These bodies are spectral—lean, vulnerable, unprotected—yet simultaneously uncompromising in their presence. The photographs resist being absorbed into the dominant ...
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