Statement blog 1

For this project I wanted to make a series of images that created an uncanniness, specifically focusing on the idea of having a bad trip under the influence of psychedelics. I wanted to create these fake living entities/monsters that would be encountered during a bad trip. From past experiences I was also influenced to go down this direction of recreating these glitched visual monsters. The idea of having a bad experience with psychedelics is funny and at the same time scary depending on the visuals. So that is why I was focused on creating the monsters using A.I. by feeding it funny prompts until I got my desired outcome. I was more interested in creating goofy/uncanny looking monsters than scary ones because I felt like it would of not given the same effect with the glitches. I was also thinking about how these images might respond or look like when glitched while playing around with them. I felt that the more colorful and goofy they looked the better they would look glitched. I ended up using three methods of glitching when creating the images. I used notepad, hex edit and audacity which in my opinion was the one that did the most glitching. I would also re-feed some of these images back into the A.I. generator until I felt satisfied with the composition and color. I wanted to make these monsters feel like they were moving/glitching out of the screen and almost alive while at the same time creating them as non-human as possible. I enjoyed working with all of these methods of glitching and I will continue to experiment with them in my own work.