Booker Johnson

Artist Statement

Using AI image generation tools like Midjourney, I engaged in a conversation with technology, prompting the software to show me "A linocut print of graffiti in black ink." I used a selection of the resultant images to create my "AI Graffiti" prints. AI is still learning to make pictures. There is a naivety, even an innocence, in the results.

I am fascinated by translating art mediums. This project is inspired by physical street art but passed through the digital eyes of AI and finally back through the physical process of hand carving linoleum. Is the ultimate "author" the graffiti artist? Or the AI software that generates images based on that inspiration? Or the hand that carves the linoleum? Are these prints "found objects," repurposed art, or original creations?

My "AI Graffiti" prints are both familiar and alien. They playfully blur the definitions and expectations of intent and authorship.

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