Mortal Beauty

A Portrait of the Artist as AI 'Mortal Beauty' - She recognises his gaze and her own power. Over 80 years after his death, we discover what artificial intelligence makes of James Joyce, whose unique intellect combined and recombined visual and linguistic references across the entire history of writing and music and art. In this section of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen’s encounter with the bird-girl enables him to fully embrace the world of sensuality and artistic freedom. He is forever transformed. In these three extracts each line is used for the CLIP prompt without embellishment except for the instruction ‘in the style of Irish artist Sir john Lavery’. The extra...View all