From the ashes. Towards an honest museum

Abstract

"From the Ashes" is an interactive AI driven installation that explores the concept of generating audience interaction through an open, speculative knowledge generation process, targeting missing information regarding a collection of artworks. The pieces in question are from the Modern Artworks from Germany, that were destroyed following the “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibition series. In my work, I am using prompt-to-image AI generating models to create speculative recreations of these lost artworks, based on the information they left behind – such as artist, title, medium and style. “In my work, I am using prompt-to-image AI generating models to create speculative recreations of the lost artworks, based on the information they left behind – such as artist, title, medium and style. To achieve this, I have created a digital database from the remaining information about these pieces and wrote a code that generates a prompt that can be understood by an AI program.”