'Let me turn your imagination into imagery', says DALL.E. 

But whose imagination? whose imagery?

Sultan after AI (2024) is a digital archive that communicates the results of a human-AI interaction experiment (for details, please check experiment details). This project provokes a critical question: can text-to-image AI tools really help the artists or image practitioners from the Global South/ Majority World in their creative pursuits? 

Read the accepted paper at BritCHI 2025  

S M Sultan is prominent decolonial Bangladeshi artist. In this project, his four unique artworks were attempted to produce by using DALL.E 3 with carefully developed iterative textual prompts. Click on the following images to see what happened next. 

This project was led by Abdullah Safir and advised by Dr Tomasz Hollanek (LCFI), Professor Alan Blackwell (Computer Lab) and Dr Ramit Debnath (CamCID Group/ CHIA) at the University of Cambridge.  To know more please email: sa2168@cam.ac.uk.

Curation Advisor: Barry Phipps (Churchill College, University of Cambridge)

Acknowledgement :  Pamela Peter-Agbia (Program Manager, Google Arts & Culture), Priya Goswami (Mozilla Fellow), Emma Pratt (Koekoeā Studio)

Title photograph credit: Nasir Ali Mamun / Photoseum