THE ELECTRICIAN by eldagsen (Berlin) courtesy of PetaPixel.
Toronto. Les Jones sent me an email the other day about Berlin-based “photomedia artist” Boris Eldagsen. Boris won one of the prestigious World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards with his photograph called “THE ELECTRICIAN” from his series “PSEUDOMNESIA Fake Memories“.
Boris DECLINED the prize. He explained that while the photograph appears to use an old photography technique, it was actually ‘co-produced’ with the aid of AI (artificial intelligence) image generators.
We once said ‘a camera doesn’t lie’ – not any more! The more tech-savvy folk amongst us realize that ‘AI image generators’ are the buzz words of today. About 40 years ago, computers were just too slow and memory too small to run any serious AI app. Today, this is simply not the case. Even my desktop setup has more capacity than an entire data centre back in the 1980s!
You can read the full article titled,”Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest” here or on PetaPixel.
