Highlights from the Slow Down Time generative art collection.
This presentation does not include the Midjourney metadata or the image series genealogy. For contextual data and full prompt parameters please see the individual author pages.
The images presented here are co-creations between the prompt author, the Midjourney algorithm and the prompt wrangler.
MG 10.05.23

Jennifer Perkin
Reality Check
How do I know if this is real?

Sean Redmond
The Loneliness Room
A single boat floats
Blue ripples surround the oars
Loneliness can be so still

Jen Webb
Mirror City
Holding my own hand, I pass the mirror city, the lake, parliamentary lights repeated against the water, against the night sky.

Raul Posse
Colectivo
La lucha es un poema colectivo (Resisting is a collective poem)

Geert Lovink
The Net
The Internet does not exist

James Carey
3.37am
Monday morning. 3.37am
Lover
Pining

Lev Manovich
1770 Futurism
17th century etching, 1770s vision of 1970s modern research institute,
white paper, lots of details, in the style of Breugel, cross-hatching

Wendy Haslem
For Patti
This is a black and white sunset seascape photograph dedicated to Patti Smith

Wajeehah Aayeshah
Smart Plant
Teleporting through Smart Plants

Adam Brown
Future Imperfect
The future of architecture.

Tyne Daile Sumner
Bucker & Buxel
Bucker & Buxel

Ruth Gardner
Bots (Metro Edition)
I hope the bots can work it out

Sally Breen
Feel it
We have to steal everything to feel it

Carli Shiel
Meatgrinder
Robot meatgrinder carrying stacks of paper to the steampunk computer

Sean Lowry
History
Our present can at times seem wider than history is deep

Lev Manovich
Still Life
Still-life painting by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, water glasses,
water bottles, dry flowers, eggs, cloth, light from open window on the
left, reflections on the wet wall, rainbow, mist, very detailed

Michelle Hall
Crash
Love him like the shore loves the crashing waves.

Maisy Goodwin
The Beach
A bright sunny day by the turquoise sea. Hot golden sand, luscious green leaves, tropical forest.

Raul Posse
El Agua
No tomes el agua (Don’t drink the water)

Lani Motiekaitis
Mirror Moon
The Earth reflected in a giant mirror installed on the surface of the moon.

Geert Lovink
Sad by Design
Sad by design

Ingo Petzke
Object
“The film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.” (BBFC, 1929)

Ron McBurnie
Newton
The antechapel where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
(Wordsworth, 1850)

Jack Latimore
The Cliff
A white man gives his family t-shirts espousing the Black sentiment “Always Was”, then begins herding them towards a cliff and drives them over with the use of a computer mouse swinging wildly on the end of its thin wire cord. On the Diamond Flat below, stands the commercial Avenger Thor, ravenously gobbling their plummeting bodies.

Carly Shiel
Vitruvian
Bicycle built for two Vitruvian men

Henri van Noordenburg
Still Water
Still water, reminiscent of an oasis that once was a Dante inferno or ultimate divinity of nature

Lev Manovich
Siberia 2032
A decaying Siberian city in 2032 after a 10 year long war damaged the
country, winter 10am light, dramatic sky. Matte painting, trending on
ArtStation.

Wajeehah Aayeesha
ID
INTRODUCTION: Insert name. Lecturer in Educational Design at an Australian University. Accent Attire POSITIONALITY: Muslim. Woman. PoC. Academic. Pakistani. Australian. Immigrant. Daughter of migrants. Sister. Friend.

Sarah-Mace Dennis
2100
If I was diagnosed ‘mad’ in the year 2100, what would I be wearing? Where would I be? Who would surround me?

Sean Lowry
Complexity
Is it our nature as a virus in clothes to make cities and Internets of ineffable complexity?
















Geert Lovink
(Emoji) Dreams
“What did you dream? It’s alright, we told you what to dream.”
(Pink Floyd, 1975)

Sally Breen
Exit
When I met him in different cities we exit hotels separately, waiting, a few beats between lifts.

Ruth Gardner
Bots
I hope the bots can work it out

Carly Shiel
Lemon
Prometheus made from lemons, giving lemonade to humanity