Max Danciger (M.Arch II): NTU Global Digital Art Prize Finals
Congratulations to our M.Arch II student Max Antoine Lalande Danciger on being selected as a finalist in the NTU Global Digital Art Prize 2022!
Max, along with other student finalists, will be sharing his artwork ‘AI_Tales from the prompt’ on Nov 26th, 11am onwards at NTU ADM Auditorium. Their artwork will also be exhibited starting this weekend from Nov 26th 2022 to Jan 27th 2023, at NTU ADM Gallery 1 & 2. Find out more about the NTU Global Digital Art Prize here (https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/gdap/)
NTU Global Digital Art Prize Student Finals
Venue: NTU ADM Auditorium
Date: November 26th 2022
Time: 11am – 12 noon
NTU Global Digital Art Prize Exhibition
Venue: NTU ADM Gallery 1 & 2
Date: November 26th 2022 (4pm onwards) – January 27th 2023
‘AI_Tales from the prompt’ explores the relationship and interpretations between people and AI. Much spoken about in the mainstream, AI-generated imagery is in vogue, from talking about the end of the profession of graphic designers and illustrators, to the controversies of artists being replaced by machines, to the biases created in these artworks that in turn fuel more biases… but also about the opportunities for the arts, entertainment, technology sector from these advances and creations. In simple terms, AI-generated imagery, performed on platforms such as MidJourney or DALL.E to name a few, uses text prompts from the users, the people, which in turn create images and variations of these images based on these prompts. But have we had the chance to pause and ponder, just because the prompt says perhaps ‘picture of a hat’, does that mean that we see the hat and not interpret it as instead ‘a boa constrictor digesting an elephant’? Experiments in AI-generated imagery have been tailored and sent to authors around the world, with backgrounds ranging from bankers to architects to artists, with no explanation or revealing of what the prompt is. What do the authors see that the machine doesn’t? Let us see what tales come from the prompt.
Bio
Max Antoine Lalande Danciger is a British and French spatial practitioner and thinker. Having published a graphic novel with KDP, ‘Two Aliens Figuring out’ about the urban and architectural consequences of pandemics, freelance illustrator working with Penguin, helping design sculptures for artist Marc Antoine Goulard, advertising projects for international brands such as Hana Group, teaching staff at universities both in London and Singapore, exhibiting work at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Central Saint Martins and now the Nanyang Technological University and more. Having worked for the architectural practice WilkinsonEyre, known among other projects for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore and Battersea Power Station in London, Max has spent time working on commissioned projects and competitions that deal with re-thinking of how we deal with the construction industry and the environment, from indoor vertical gardening markets to solutions on refurbishing entire skyscrapers for the least carbon emissions produced possible. Max, although architecturally and spatially inclined keeps his body of work multi-disciplinary, always looking for projects to work and collaborate on that cross these thresholds.