One Cow
One Cow is interested in the semantics of artificial intelligence tools.
These tools generate images on the basis of a prompt, a word, a sentence or a paragraph on which the tool relies to produce an image. However, the tools available to the general public are veritable black boxes. It's impossible to know the image database on which the image-generating algorithm is based; an algorithm that's just as mysterious and secretive.
Albertine's "One Cow" project focuses on the semantics surrounding a prompt composed of a single word: "One Cow". In order to constrain the generation tool, Albertine asks it to produce "One Cow" within a golden frame, a context that requires us to look beyond representation. As a result, some astonishing images are produced, not representing a cow but rather representations close to the cow's environment: Milk, Sheep, Green Grass, Nourisher...
In this way, the images produced allow us to discover the semantic tree associated with the cow in the mysterious tool that is Midjourney.
Some of Midjourney's cow semantics:
BIRD, SURELY ON THE COW
DRESSED LAMB
GREEN GRASS
MILK
UDDER COW
BUTTER
FEEDER UDDER
ICECREAM YAOURT
BULL OF THE TOREADOR
TOREADOR
SHEEPS, BUDDY OF COWS
PINK FRILLY SHEEP
COTTON SHEEP
16th CENTURY SHEEP
21th CENTURY SHEEP
FISH IN A ROW
GOLDEN LINGOT
COW IN SPACECRAFT
REPRODUCTION
SQUIRREL
MONGOLIA
WILD WEEDS
MARGUERITE
created with Midjourney 5.2
2024 – Albertine Meunier