Post-Reality Memories 1

POST-REALITY MEMORIES by Nicola Villa explores the relationship between our historical visual memory and the artificial imagery generated today through the use of AI. The artworks were generated through an image-to-image blending and re-elaboration workflow using Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Starting from analog works of his own archive, Villa uses AI to elaborate, deform, recompose and blend the images and styles of the original input without textual prompt except for basic commands. The outputs are then post-produced and re-combined with non-digital native layers and finally integrated into MP4s. The works evoke a sense of real memory, but with a dystopian quality of shapes, spaces, ...View all