Slow Down Time

Commenced August 1, 2022

23 authors
35 prompts
990 generated parent grids (approx.)
3,300 generated images (approx.)
266 curated image editions
350.43 server hours
25.26 GB of project data^*

A series of conceptual interactions that traverse geography, time and networked space through the exchange of text, image and data.

Generative A.I. systems – like MidJourney and DALL.E – perform image requests in a matter of seconds, they represent a new machine operation of hyper-seduction.

Slow Down Time is a response to the manufactured desire for instantaneity and gratification in modes of digital media production and consumption.

Contemplation, reflection, and imagination are the inverse of machine learning efficiencies.

Time is the human intervention within the hyper-machine performance.

^{* Image count as @ 28.08.23. Above characters are edited samples from the the series, “Emoji Dreams“, which emerged from Geert Lovink’s submitted prompt: “What did you dream? It’s alright, we told you what to dream.” The prompt itself is a pinch from Pink Floyd’s ‘Welcome to the Machine‘ from the 1975 album Wish You Were Here, EMI, UK}