A collaborative art making project exploring the relationship between text, image and machine.

Jennifer Perkin

Edition: 01-D2CE

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–test –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

d30b195d-5216-46b9-848b-d54e2086f589

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Orphan grid

Midjourney Job ID :: 7731c9fd-8cfa-4129-b01c-4ab34f754b72

Jennifer Perkin – Author’s Response

I was struck by how stark and lonely and moody the first images are and how quickly they evolve into something much warmer and optimistic.

I thought the prompt would produce something more robotic, industrial, maybe a kind of man versus machine motif. What it produced however was more abstract, even a bit poetic?

From left to right :: Reality Check Series, Editions 01-B3DB, 01-B4EC & 01-D2DM

I feel it actually infuses philosophical themes of solipsism, in that the latter images riff on a sort of ‘world in the mind’ idea. How do I know if this is real? The images suggest that we don’t. The external world potentially doesn’t exist outside of the mind. Which raises the question – if that were the case, would that make it any less ‘real’?

The feeling it leaves me with is both warmth … and a little bit unsettled.

Aesthetically to me the last four images are a touch sci-fi or even pseudo new-age, especially the latter images with their slightly peculiar white outfits. They remind me of retro-futurism, almost what I would expect from AI in a way.

The first person who appears in the series feels closer to nature, with the naked torso and wild hair, and then they get progressively more ‘civilised’ and generic as the image in the mind become more detailed.

The feeling it leaves me with is both warmth … and a little bit unsettled.

Does it know something I don’t?

JP 15-06-2023

Editions :: 01-D2D & 01-D2DK

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–test –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

Image Left :: 624db56b-1009-4871-a3de-289a40e8a310

Image Right :: 9d7b2a23-14a3-4b1a-bb6a-909667135a1c

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Image Prompt (Recycled from 01-C1)

Midjourney Job ID :: 23a04288-a096-4603-8898-3864ab439cfb

Parent grid

Midjourney Job ID :: 05910c08-9240-411a-bdc8-0c451b61a977.

Edition: 10-A1D

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this real?

Context Parameters

–testp –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

bd214337-9f95-4ca1-802b-acc38de925a3

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Parent Grid

Midjourney Job ID :: e406e6d9-7341-4d23-b109-8717fecdb134

Edition: 09-A1BA

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–testp –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

2ed1802e-1439-4ca5-aa33-b05d2dc28f4f

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Parent Grid

Midjourney Job ID :: e406e6d9-7341-4d23-b109-8717fecdb134

Edition: 01-B4EC

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–test –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

d30b195d-5216-46b9-848b-d54e2086f589

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Orphan grid

Midjourney Job ID :: 7731c9fd-8cfa-4129-b01c-4ab34f754b72

Edition: 01-B4EC

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–testp –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

9a44b667-9205-4f3f-827f-dfde4a14c0a3

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Parent grid

Midjourney Job ID :: 99778427-09d7-4045-b5e7-42cb38952e08

Edition: 02-C4BB

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context Parameters

–test –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

d30b195d-5216-46b9-848b-d54e2086f589

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Image Prompt (Recycled from 02-D1)

Midjourney Job ID :: 9b7ac99d-c2ff-4ee5-b845-38ef1d0c335c

Orphan grid

Midjourney ID :: da8f6a72-dc2b-4c32-9753-8095f4aad38c

Video Experiment #02

Editions 01-A1 – 01-D2FE (125 images)

Reality Check

Text prompt

How do I know if this is real?

Context parameters

NA

Parameters

–test –creative

Midjourney Job ID #

First Image :: d30b195d-5216-46b9-848b-d54e2086f589

Last Image :: 1cab2164-e2a3-40fb-881e-144e7e81c4b4

Prompt Author

Jennifer Perkin

Parent Grid

Midjourney job ID :: 05910c08-9240-411a-bdc8-0c451b61a977

The Reality Check series

Image production dates:
04-10-2022 to 02-12-2022

Editions :: 273

Parent grids :: 9

First Discord instance:

https://shorturl.at/mpxI7

Perkin, J., Goodwin, M. & Midjourney, “Jennifer Perkin – Reality Check,” in Slow Down Time, Goodwin, M. Ed. Melbourne: Word Press, December 2, 2022, https://slowdowntime.com/jennifer-perkin-2/