Daily.xyz - Post Photographic Perspectives II: Acceptable Realities is DAILY's second group show celebrating a new wave of innovation in AI video and photography.
Inspiration for Sentient Muppet Factory stemmed from a talk I attended by Laurie Anderson, who used puppets as an analogy for new technologies. Imagining my AI-generated images as part of a late 1970s variety show, I began to develop the concept of “Sentient Muppet Factory.” Although the title humorously references AI discourse - as these muppets are not truly sentient - the term "factory" speaks to the mechanized production facilitated by AI, as I churn out new characters in a seemingly automated manner.
All the pieces were generated using a bank of images stored on my computer, primarily consisting of the early NightCafe pieces, along with a few photos of myself in my studio. Purposefully utilizing disparate source imagery from the text prompts, I aimed to provoke an unsettling result.
| Artwork | Price | From | To | Time | |
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Sale |  Beth Frey Sentient Muppet Factory #93 Sale $200 07/14/23 | $200 | 0x000...0000 | 0x5f1...1b9f | 07/14/23 |