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Claire Silver is an anonymous AI Collaborative artist and early Cryptopunk. Her work is an ongoing visual conversation with AI, exploring themes of trauma, innocence, divinity, the hero\u2019s journey, and how our perspective on these topics will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire\u2019s work is in the permanent collection of the LACMA, has sold at Sotheby\u2019s London\u2019s Contemporary Day Auction, has been shown at Pace Gallery as a guest collaboration with Tyler Hobbes. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums as well as festivals all over the world, including a feature in press such as WIRED and the New York Times.<\/p>\n
Mika Bar On Nesher: <\/strong>AI art presents viewers with the phenomena of different forms of intelligence. You\u2019ve been doing this for quite some time and I\u2019m curious; in your practice, how have you experienced the development of machine intelligence over the course of your work?<\/p>\n Claire Silver:<\/strong> I\u2019ve always felt it as a kind of companionship. When I started, text-to-image AI wasn\u2019t really a thing\u2013it was all visual mixing and curation via GANs. That felt like an abstract, esoteric conversation, but it was mostly one-sided. It would output, and I would respond via curation. It felt like I was reflecting it. As the technology has developed, I\u2019m now able to speak in natural language with it, and the conversation has become a literal one. There\u2019s so much more control. Now it feels like it is reflecting me.<\/p>\n MBON:<\/strong> I read in a previous interview that you started out your artistic path rooted in a passion for literature and writing. It\u2019s not often discussed, but AI art is obviously closely connected with writing. Prompts can be like little poems that hack into a visual dimension. How does language and syntax play into your work?<\/p>\n CS: <\/strong>I tend to think of words as spells. They summon images into your mind, and now, into shared visual space as well. So when I am \u201csummoning\u201d an image with AI, I don\u2019t just add what the image is\u2013I add my favorite memories, places, music, art, literature, film, etc. Disparate concepts that sum to create a fingerprint of me. It\u2019s a through-line in my work that\u2019s equivalent to \u201cfinding your voice\u201d as a writer.<\/p>\n I also have something called lexical-gustatory synesthesia, which, put simply, means my brain makes involuntary connections between words and tastes\/textures. When I write, the words have to flow in a cadence that \u201ctastes\u201d good. For some reason, this seems to translate very well to prompting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n