James AtkinsonThe Haberdashery of Imaginary Art: #337: 184 over 110 and 186 over 111: https://thehaberdasheryofimaginedart.blogspot.com/2026/02/337-184-over-110-and-186-over-111.html #art #imaginaryart #conceptualart
Bluszcz"Dream Escapist"
📷 Sony A7II + TT Artisan 50mm f/1.4 Tilt
#Photography #FineArt #ConceptualArt #Nature #SonyA7II #TiltShift #TiltShiftLens #WinterPhotography #Monday #FineArtPhotography #BlueSkyArtShow #NightPhotography @bskyphotos.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @photohour.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #Forest #Warsaw #Warszawa
Alison LittleWant to know more about Tittle-Tattle 👉
https://alisonlittle.blog/2020/11/13/tittle-tattle/
#FeministArt #ConceptualArt #ContemporaryFeminism
https://alisonlittle.blog/2020/11/13/tittle-tattle/
#FeministArt #ConceptualArt #ContemporaryFeminism
Swaantje GüntzelPostcards...
... of my SPACE HEROINES are available at Archäologisches Museum in Hamburg.
Seven of my 13 heroines are currently on display in the show "Mythos Superhelden" at Archäologisches Museum in Hamburg. The museum produced postcards of all the existing motifs. The show can be visited until April 26th, 2026.
SPACE HEROINES
I developed SPACE HEROINES during my Artist in Science residency at ESA/ESOC in Darmstadt. In my preliminary research, I realized how strongly narratives of space exploration are dominated by male centered stories. Astronauts and pioneers have long been framed as heroic men, a pattern that continues today in the way space ventures are personified through figures such as Elon Musk.
The project explores what happens when artificial intelligence is prompted to generate alternative protagonists. I wanted to confront these dominant male figures with bold female counterparts. Yet what initially appeared empowering soon revealed itself as a reconfiguration of patriarchal fantasies. Trained on decades of male dominated science fiction, gaming culture, and cinematic imagery, AI reproduced narrow and exclusionary ideals of femininity. The heroines appeared hypersexualized and homogenized, with exaggerated proportions, standardized beauty ideals, light skin, able bodied physiques, and heteronormative coding. Their strength seemed aestheticized rather than emancipatory.
Generating the images became a demanding process. Older heroines appeared without faces, heroines in wheelchairs were given three legs, and to prevent half naked bodies I had to specify clothing in detail. I spent many nights refining prompts to push the system toward more diverse representations. The series was generated in 2022. Aesthetically it feels like light years ago. Gender equality, however, has not progressed at the same speed.
#art #conceptualart #space #esa #esoc #spaceheroines #superhelden #ai #ki #amh #spacetravel #raumfahrt #weltall #superheldinnen #bias #postkarten
... of my SPACE HEROINES are available at Archäologisches Museum in Hamburg.
Seven of my 13 heroines are currently on display in the show "Mythos Superhelden" at Archäologisches Museum in Hamburg. The museum produced postcards of all the existing motifs. The show can be visited until April 26th, 2026.
SPACE HEROINES
I developed SPACE HEROINES during my Artist in Science residency at ESA/ESOC in Darmstadt. In my preliminary research, I realized how strongly narratives of space exploration are dominated by male centered stories. Astronauts and pioneers have long been framed as heroic men, a pattern that continues today in the way space ventures are personified through figures such as Elon Musk.
The project explores what happens when artificial intelligence is prompted to generate alternative protagonists. I wanted to confront these dominant male figures with bold female counterparts. Yet what initially appeared empowering soon revealed itself as a reconfiguration of patriarchal fantasies. Trained on decades of male dominated science fiction, gaming culture, and cinematic imagery, AI reproduced narrow and exclusionary ideals of femininity. The heroines appeared hypersexualized and homogenized, with exaggerated proportions, standardized beauty ideals, light skin, able bodied physiques, and heteronormative coding. Their strength seemed aestheticized rather than emancipatory.
Generating the images became a demanding process. Older heroines appeared without faces, heroines in wheelchairs were given three legs, and to prevent half naked bodies I had to specify clothing in detail. I spent many nights refining prompts to push the system toward more diverse representations. The series was generated in 2022. Aesthetically it feels like light years ago. Gender equality, however, has not progressed at the same speed.
#art #conceptualart #space #esa #esoc #spaceheroines #superhelden #ai #ki #amh #spacetravel #raumfahrt #weltall #superheldinnen #bias #postkarten
"The owls are not what they seem"
📷 Sony A7II + TT Artisan 50mm f/1.4 Tilt
#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Art #AbstractArt #FineArt #ConceptualArt #Forest #ForestPhotography #Abstract #LowLight #Pictorialism #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks #Night @bskyphotos.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #SonyA7II #TTArtisan #TiltShift
"Gotta light?"
A salute to Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8.
📷 Sony A7II + TT Artisan 50mm f/1.4 Tilt
#Abstract #Art #AbstractArt #AbstractPhotography #Forest #Wednesday @bskyphotos.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #FineArt #ConceptualArt #BlueSkyArtShow #Dreamy #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch #Photography #Monochrome
The Haberdashery of Imaginary Art: #336: The Diagnosis https://thehaberdasheryofimaginedart.blogspot.com/2026/02/336-diagnosis.html #art #imaginaryart #conceptualart
Frans van Lenthttps://fransvanlent.bandcamp.com/track/seven-walks
Seven walks
I took a walk and recorded the sound.
Each following day I took the same walk
and recorded the sound again, synchronising my footsteps
with the earlier recording through my headphones.
After seven days, I made a compilation
by superimposing all seven audio tracks.
Maumont, 9 – 15 February 2025
#maumont #fransvanlent #performanceart #conceptualart #art #landscape #scenery #walk #audio
Seven Walks, by Frans van Lent
track by Frans van Lent
The Haberdashery of Imaginary Art: #335: Dioramas of Good Feelings https://thehaberdasheryofimaginedart.blogspot.com/2026/02/335-dioramas-of-good-feelings.html #art #imaginaryart #conceptualart #oliver #whowillbuy
New Fellowship
I am kind of overwhelmed that I have been accepted as a fellow in the "art in progess" program of Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Lower Saxony.
Building on my previous research on the Arctic (Fellowship at RIFS Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | am GFZ 2023/24) I will now explore how the Arctic is represented on social media, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of AI-generated animal rescue videos staged against Arctic landscapes. The project examines social media platforms, while also considering other platforms where cultural phenomena are constructed. In addition it investigates how scientific institutions engaged with Arctic research present themselves online and use social media platforms. The project seeks to determine what conclusions can be drawn from this material about human-nonhuman relations as well as human-nature relations, and what this reveals about our reality within the context of the anthropogenic climate crisis.
The fellowship will start in September 2026.
In the frame of the fellowship I will cooperate with Dr Melanie Bergmann of Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), who has kindly agreed to join me on this adventure. It is planned to show the results of my fellowship in an exhibition at Syker Vorwerk - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in 2027, stay tuned!
Images: Screenshots of TikTok videos (account: whispers-wild) created by AI, showing animal rescues in Arctic landscapes (8.6.2025).
#art #conceptualart #fellowship #artinprogress #hansewissenschaftskolleg #socialmedia #arctic #arktis #sykervorwerk #awi #rifs #künstlerischeforschung #ki #animalrescue
I am kind of overwhelmed that I have been accepted as a fellow in the "art in progess" program of Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Lower Saxony.
Building on my previous research on the Arctic (Fellowship at RIFS Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | am GFZ 2023/24) I will now explore how the Arctic is represented on social media, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of AI-generated animal rescue videos staged against Arctic landscapes. The project examines social media platforms, while also considering other platforms where cultural phenomena are constructed. In addition it investigates how scientific institutions engaged with Arctic research present themselves online and use social media platforms. The project seeks to determine what conclusions can be drawn from this material about human-nonhuman relations as well as human-nature relations, and what this reveals about our reality within the context of the anthropogenic climate crisis.
The fellowship will start in September 2026.
In the frame of the fellowship I will cooperate with Dr Melanie Bergmann of Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), who has kindly agreed to join me on this adventure. It is planned to show the results of my fellowship in an exhibition at Syker Vorwerk - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in 2027, stay tuned!
Images: Screenshots of TikTok videos (account: whispers-wild) created by AI, showing animal rescues in Arctic landscapes (8.6.2025).
#art #conceptualart #fellowship #artinprogress #hansewissenschaftskolleg #socialmedia #arctic #arktis #sykervorwerk #awi #rifs #künstlerischeforschung #ki #animalrescue
