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Ursula 3 #30 by Hannah Whitaker

This collection of photographs expands on a character who has been the focal point of my work for a few years: Ursula. I leave ambiguous exactly who and what she is. Her nature is something between an AI, a fictional character, an avatar, a product of the collective imagination, and a living, fully dimensional, being. 

I have previously made two bodies of work with her. The first I published with Image Text Ithaca Press in a book called Ursula. These photographs also comprise my genesis NFT drop. The second I showed recently at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris in an exhibition called Shadow Detail. This third body of work is the first made specifically for the NFT space. Im calling it Ursula 3, as the third iteration of the project, and in a nod to Web3.

These photographs incorporate some of the photographic techniques that I have used in the past in cultivating the mystique of Ursulasilhouettes, special effect lighting, and printed backgrounds. For Ursula 3 I combined these techniques with a more hands-on approach to set building. I had several props and set materials fabricated out of mirrored plexi, including patterned screens, Ursulas profile, and her hands. I also had made a turtleneck, gloves, and hoods in reflective materials. In addition to using these props, I incorporated rear projection, a technique used in a pre-digital era of Hollywood filmmaking. 

The sets are more complex than I had done previously, with the intent of making the space in the photographs stranger, more layered, and more difficult to decipher. The resulting photographs evoke the established language of the Ursula lineage but usher her into an increasingly synthetic universe.

Edition: 1 of 1

Commissioned by Obscura

Ursula 3 #30 by Hannah Whitaker

The "Surreal Life" is a collection of 251 completely generative still life works. Each painting is unique and generated from artificial intelligence using a deep learning architecture called diffusion modeling. 

The classical shapes, patterns, and colors of traditional still life are captured from millions of images and then transformed into the synthetic fruits, flowers, and vases seen in each composition.


SURREAL LIFE

Surreal Life #83

Fun and quirky cats, each with its own unique personality.

Pixel Cats

Cat#52

GrailersDAO is a community of creators, curators, and collectors of some of the most sought-after digital art. Our objective is to support generative artists and the expanding generative art ecosystem including through our periodic curated art releases.

GrailersDAO invites established and emerging generative artists to join the DAO. Artist DAO members get access to a private Discord channel to connect with other artists along with the opportunity to participate and contribute with the broader Grailers community.

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Atlas is a collection of interactive abstract kinetic paintings illustrating the paradoxical unity of living creatures. Beneath a dynamic but integrated whole, competing cells bubble in disquiet. As perhaps we all do.

Colour is used to represent the cellular dynamics, each piece evolving under its own laws.  Cells are rendered in various palettes and several shapes  from round to square, luminous, and Escher-like. Zooming in you can see the wild nature of individual elements.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes.

Controls:

mouse wheel / z / x / pinch-drag  zoom
click-drag / a/w/s/d (iframe) / arrow keys (generator)  pan
double-click / spacebar  pause
f - toggle full-screen options

Atlas #286

Atlas #284

Atlas #278

Atlas #259

Atlas #241

Atlas #204

Atlas #104

SCAMMER

XEROZ

VACOA

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