Artificial
Medium
In part-one of Artificial Medium, a manually generated database of 5,550 Medium headlines related to productivity, remote working, and COVID-19 is fed into AI technology to generate new and related content based on the source material.
The result is a slew of new uncanny valley-esque headlines and photos that almost seem written and produced by a human hand. This mashup of content can seem unusual, humorous, and ephemeral—perhaps only relevant in our current age of COVID-19.
In part-two I used the AI generated content to design stamps which, like the emails we receive from Medium and other content generating platforms, facilitate the act of communicating information and the consumption of media.
The collection of stamps brings the analog and digital worlds together, while the original content that fueled our culture of hyper-productivity is distorted and manipulated until the pressure we once felt to produce and consume turns to humor and eccentricity.
Stamps: 1.5 x 2 inches
Envelopes: 5.75 x 4.25 inches
Also seen in MFA Thesis
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Artificial Medium
An MFA Thesis Project
Content generated from Medium and similar online platforms, are part of a daily media diet that implies our need to stay in constant production and consumption for fear of falling into social or professional irrelevance.
In part-one of Artificial Medium, a manually generated database of 5,550 Medium headlines related to productivity, remote working, and COVID-19 is fed into AI technology to generate new and related content based on the source material.
The result is a slew of new uncanny valley-esque headlines and photos that almost seem written and produced by a human hand. This mashup of content can seem unusual, humorous, and ephemeral—perhaps only relevant in our current age of COVID-19.
In part-two I used the AI generated content to design stamps which, like the emails we receive from Medium and other content generating platforms, facilitate the act of communicating information and the consumption of media.
The collection of stamps brings the analog and digital worlds together, while the original content that fueled our culture of hyper-productivity is distorted and manipulated until the pressure we once felt to produce and consume turns to humor and eccentricity.
Stamps: 1.5 x 2 inches
Envelopes: 5.75 x 4.25 inches
Also seen in MFA Thesis
Also seen in MFA Thesis
