Available NOW!
The print of one of my SPACE HEROINES is now available as a limited, numbered and signed edition. The edition is part of the 21st Edition presented by Galerie Holthoff (Hamburg) and Taylor Wessing Germany (Hamburg) accompanying the current exhibition "# 010 Contemporary AI" of Galerie Holthoff in the premises of Taylor Wessing Hamburg (more information here:
https://galerie-holthoff.de/Ausstellungen/aktuell/Taylor-Wessing-010-AI/).
Swaantje Güntzel
SPACE HEROINES, 2022/23
Heroine defending space against villains and space debris, comic style
Print on Hahnemühlepaper
30 x 24 cm
Edition 21
240 €
21st Edition ->
https://lnkd.in/er6h_wq6
SPACE HEROINES
Series of female super heroines who maintain law and order in the universe and fight against space debris. The work is conceived as a commentary on male-dominated space travel and of male-determined self-conceptions of space conquest. It was created in the context of an artist residency at European Space Agency -
#ESA in Darmstadt that Güntzel held in 2022. The works were generated using the open source DALL.E 2 AI from descriptions in natural language. Since then, Güntzel has continued to further develop the work, which simultaneously questions the biased practice of
#AI in which “heroines” are standardized as white, young, slender, mostly blond, scantily clad, over-sexualized women. More inclusive and diverse images emerged only when prompts explicitly contradicted these norms. Even then, the AI often failed to produce a more inclusive image or the results are so impaired that they are unusable (images that lacked colour, figures without faces, etc.). The series is more relevant than ever after Trump instructed
#NASA “‘to drop everything’ to scrub public sites of mentioning of DEI, indigenous people, environmental justice, and women in leadership” ->
https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/
#art #conceptualart #fineartprint #space #spacedebris #spaceheroine #collectingart
Corné Akkers
Swaantje Güntzel
