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"Since last year, I have been working on a project with my Thai mother who
migrated to Australia in 1974 while pregnant with me. There are no photographs
of this significant event. As a reparative act to fill in the gaps of our
family archive, I used a generative AI platform to create photographs of my
mother’s migration story, a project I called
Counterfactual Departures.
To conjure photographs in MidJourney, I collected information to engineer a
range of prompts. I noted details of my mother’s departure from Thailand – her
age, the location, her clothing and the trimester of her pregnancy. I also
included my own interpretation of how she would have felt as a 30-year-old
woman travelling alone to white Australia in the 1970s. She spoke little
English and had no family or friends of her own to begin life with my father,
who she barely knew.
My attempts to piece together the past using data sets scraped from the
collective archive of the internet have led me to question the role photography
and memory might play in this new era of generative AI."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
