Adam Chau (*1988, USA) creates blue and white porcelain objects using cobalt as a pigment. In doing so, he draws parallels between the historical craft with a long history of globalisation and to a material used in the electronics industry. The AI-generated images on the plates shown in the exhibition result from Adam Chau giving in precise text instructions (prompts) to software in order to obtain specific types of images.
Adam Chau (*1988, USA) creates blue and white porcelain objects using cobalt as a pigment. In doing so, he draws parallels between the historical craft with a long history of globalisation and to a material used in the electronics industry. The AI-generated images on the plates shown in the exhibition result from Adam Chau giving in precise text instructions (prompts) to software in order to obtain specific types of images.
“I have been using it to imagine a world where homophobia does not exist and ask the question – what if ceramic artists in Ming Dynasty China were gay? What would our world look like if we celebrated queer identity? Would our pottery reflect this inclusive mindset? I tell the AI software to imagine pottery where ‘two men are in love’ – I enjoy this term because I would assume that the word ‘love’ is subjective and a bit meaningless to a computer, yet I receive images that are endearing and convey a very specific type of affection.”
Adam Chau in his email of 27 May 2023