Goddesses

By Susanne Klein

Painting & Graphic Design

The 5 prints are part of the ‘Goddess’ series, which explores the non-human nature of gods by creating the imagery with artificial intelligence. They are the result of a ‘fight against the machine’. Since artificial intelligence is mostly used to generate either photorealistic images or images which fall under ‘gaming’ aesthetics, it is not trivial to push the software into a different direction and to create figures which are not human and not obviously female but invite the brain to interpret them as female. The names of the goddesses and the attribute ‘female’ are given as prompts. The prompt for the style is either woodcut or etching. In order to create images which are not superhero style, the output is fed into the algorithm again with changing female to male. It takes up to 20 iterations with changing prompts to reach the final image. All prints are laser cut relief prints and pulled by hand.