Rob Mills Designs

Ai_August_003

The Notorious B.I.G. x Jean-Michel Basquiat. An Ai Collab.

I have been experimenting with famous lyrics and renowned artists' aesthetic styles as prompt engineering in Mid Journey - Ai.

It often feels like shooting in the dark but every now and then the random results are fascinating from a semiotic point of view, considering the Ai algorithm is pulling information from thousands of images across the internet.

The artworks above stem from the lyrical rap line “Pink gators, my Detroit players, Timbs for my hooligans in Brooklyn.”

This is taken from the single “Hypnotize” by Notorious B.I.G. as well as additional text prompting the painting style of Basquiat.

The "pink" is obvious as the textured backgrounds but there is something really intriguing about the pairs of masks that have been produced. A hybrid of American sports gear (Ice hockey and American football helmets) and the traditional African masks that inspired Basquiat’s work. The footwear theme also comes through strongly in the sets of two and the foot-like silhouettes of these “hooligans”.

One starts to question what sort of impact prompt engineering will have on the notions of authorship and intellectual property as well as the creation of meaning itself in this age of artificial intelligence.