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In his new series for TAEX and Art Basel Paris, pioneering digital artist and cultural theorist Dr. Lev Manovich explores AI aesthetics by assembling utopian city models with Bosch-like visual language. Manovich’s series is a conceptual work based on an artificial intelligence perspective on art history. No coincidence that the drop’s title reproduces exactly the phrase that was used as a MidJourney request to create one of the works for the drop. The resulting ultra-detailed series, at first glance, directly refers to Bosch and Brueghel, but a more careful study will allow one to notice modernist architectural and avant-garde aesthetic elements inscribed in the landscape. Using AI algorithms as a co-author and tool of work, Manovich remains true to his artistic language. Combining bold experiments with new technologies, visual richness and interest in cities as systems, this series consistently continues Manovich’s iconic projects as ‘Soft Cinema’, ‘On Broadway’ and ‘Selfiecity’.
