Decal by Mannay x A. Marrast

An interpretation of the Decal by Mannay x A. Marrast. A symbol of permissionless creativity. Series Fifteen.

Decal by Mannay x A. Marrast #38

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"One Thousand Elegies" is a very-long-form AI collection. One thousand editions of variable prompt-based, raw AI paintings.

This project  both the individual pieces and the collective whole  is a personal attempt to express my pain, guilt, empathy, confusion ... and the thousand other inexpressible emotions I feel when I look helplessly at the inhumane violence taking place in the world today. It is an epic; intentionally grand in scale, diverse, complex, abstract, messy, and contradictory. 


In these works I'm channeling some of my favorite painters from all periods of art history, from Pontormo to Soutine, Sonia Delaunay to Richard Diebenkorn, El Greco to Bill Traylor, Alice Neel to Goya, from Franz Kline to Amy Sillman ... and of course there's Robert Motherwell's haunting and heroic "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" series of paintings in the mix.

But this isn't just an exercise in remixing art history, it's more about my own efforts to make new paintings that feel new and private and deeply personal to me, while using samples from these artists that I know and love as my toolkit.

This project is also a continuation of what I really commenced with my collection "Onism," where I felt that I could make all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. Where I could start to almost conceptualize infinite possibilities  infinite possible outcomes, infinite possible selves.

And of course it's about the perplexing idea that these digital images that I've created at arm's length via AI, can feel so expressive and imbued with emotion.

I also keep coming back to this poem, "The Children's Elegy," by Muriel Rukeyser 

Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens
the dark flowers now are always children's eyes,
full-colored, haunted as evening under fires
showered from the air of a burning country.

Shallow-featured children under trees
look up among green shadows of the leaves.
The angel, flaming, offersin his hands
all is given and he does not change.
The child changes and takes.
All is given. He makes and changes.
The angel stands.

A flame over the tree. Night calling in the cloud.
And shadow among winds. Where does the darkness lie?
It comes out of the person, says the child.
A shadow tied and alive, trying to be.


Emil Corsillo
One Thousand Elegies
Long-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
2304 x 3456 PNG
November 17, 2023


One Thousand Elegies #128

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"Onism" is a term coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, used to describe a frustration or sadness derived from the awareness of how little of the world we will experience in our lives. 

It comes from thinking about unfulfilled experiences, and extends to thoughts about how small and finite we are relative to the realm of all possible experiences/outcomes. As someone who once thought he would have a lifelong career as a painter, this idea resonates with me deeply, and it feels doubly relevant in the context of my relationship with AI and generative art.

ONISM is a project I've been working on passionately and circuitously for more than a year. I've tested dozens of versions of this algorithm and thousands of outputs, and I like to think it has evolved over time, but it certainly has not been a linear process.

Over that time, a lot of personal emotional history has become calcified in these works. So much of this project is about the regret and longing that's inextricably tied to art-making for me (and many of us)  all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. The time I never afforded myself, the sacrifices I never made, the places I never went.

It's also about the impossibility of conceptualizing infinite possibilities  infinite possible outcomes, infinite possible selves. And of course it's about the exciting/perplexing idea that these digital images that I've created at double-arm's-length, via two separate generative algorithms, can feel so expressive and authentically imbued with emotion. 

But the beauty in all of it, in the end, is that I actually do get to make all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. 

And I can keep making more and more of them, thanks to the magical, iterative power of this Long-Form AI paintbrush that I'm lucky enough to hold in my hand.


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ONISM is a Long-Form AI project created with two generative systems: a generative script written in p5.js and a prompt-based AI process via Stable Diffusion. The p5 script outputs an image, which is fed into Stable Diffusion as an img2img input. Both processes incorporate pseudorandom weighted variables that make the outcomes dramatically varied, completely unpredictable, yet deterministic.

All of this was built entirely within EmProps OpenStudio Beta.

ONISM is the first in a series of EmProps MemberTokens. Ownership of a MemberToken confers certain privileges, including a lifetime subscription to EmProps OpenStudio at the Basic subscription tier.

Emil Corsillo
ONISM
EmProps MemberToken #1
Long-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
2688 x 3456 PNG
October 9th, 2023

EmProps MemberToken: ONISM #46

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Decagon #35210

A collection of 15,000 huggable, collectible artwork by Lisa Chow that allows you to access the HUGhub community DYOR and discovery platform for NFTs, made available through a private Discord. Each hug comes with its own utility, which is only unlocked when matched. (OpenSea traits are updating incorrectly, refer to this link for accurate information: https://bit.ly/hugrarities)

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"Sometimes I wish could spend a day completely unaware. Not vigilant. Not in pain. Not lamenting things I can not change, large and small."

A digital collage by multidisciplinary fine artist, Amalia Versaci. Collage elements are digital photographs of mixed media work on paper, also created by the artist. The final composition is created, and manipulated, digitally. The technique is a confluence of the artist's passions for creating physical and digital art, and creates a unique image, which could not be created using either format alone.

Oblivious

A digital collage by multidisciplinary fine artist, Amalia Versaci. Collage elements are digital photographs of mixed media work on paper, also created by the artist, and the composition is created digitally. The technique is a confluence of the artist's passions for creating physical and digital art.

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Digital collage, released in celebration of Black Friday, 2021!

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"We may spend our lives trying to plan for what is ahead, but often the events with the most profound consequences come at us, without warning."

A digital collage by multidisciplinary fine artist, Amalia Versaci. Collage elements are digital photographs of mixed media work on paper, also created by the artist, and the composition is created digitally. The technique is a confluence of the artist"s passions for creating physical and digital art.

.JPEG file
4000 x 4000 pixels
300 ppi
1/1 edition

Without Warning

spread love and kindness, it doesn't cost a thing.

Created with many digital tools and processes and programs. Working with 5 different programs and processes including ML & AI. 

LUV Abstract 1

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Elasticity

The Elasticity collection grew out of my love for both shape and color. The artwork is part of a continuing examination of how the two can interact to create movement.

Borrowing from the visual language of the great Futurist artists, like Umberto Boccioni, the collection embodies the dynamism that characterized the Futurist aesthetic.

The work is a new kind of Futurism, as seen through my own lens, and a digital medium.

Specifications
.MP4 file
3000 x 3000 pixels
Created and minted by Amalia Versaci, 2022.

Elasticity #6

The Elasticity collection grew out of my love for both shape and color. The artwork is part of a continuing examination of how the two can interact to create movement.

Borrowing from the visual language of the great Futurist artists, like Umberto Boccioni, the collection embodies the dynamism that characterized the Futurist aesthetic.

The work is a new kind of Futurism, as seen through my own lens, and a digital medium.

**Specifications**
.MP4 file
3000 x 3000 pixels
Created and minted by Amalia Versaci, 2022.