In the collaborative project for The Fable, Kristen and Iofeye are exploring questions and themes in the space where human-technology-nature intersect. Based on AI generated fable-like creatures and fictional language, combined with intuitively created analog signs as well as sound, they are playing with the idea of telling possible stories about these creatures through different unpredictable generative results. More than a predetermined story, the project is a kind of a contemplation and a question about the crucial role of language, story and imagination in our relationship to the natural world around us and the technology that we develop and engage with.


Kristen Applegate
https://kristenapplegate.crevado.com/

As an artist, I am inspired by the intersection of technology and traditional craftsmanship. My work often uses humor to make playful yet thought-provoking statements about the consumption of animals, insects, and even humans as food. Recently this exploration has taken the form of creating AI images that become actual or projected surface decoration for pieces of ceramic dinnerware. Prompt-crafting with AI interfaces such as Midjourney and DALL-E allows me to create the odd animal-like storybook characters as well as the imaginative renderings of meat that appear in my work. My “anti-tale” characters are depicted in a vintage style that adds an element of nostalgia.
For our Floor project, Iofeye and I are delving further into the notion of storytelling using the extra anti-tale characters who did not make the cast list for my ceramic work. In this project, they get to tell their own stories in their own languages. I'm excited to hear what they say.


Indira Iofeye
https://linktr.ee/iofeye

My art is characterised by experimentation, exploration and intuitive expression and I am drawn to the potential that lies in collisions and connections between different media, expressive formats and conceptual universes. I am fascinated by the hybrid creations, by unlikely collisions and combinations, unpredictable turns and “mistakes”. For me, art and the artistic process are not solely about expressing something that already exists or is known, but also a way to ask and address questions about multiple aspects of existence, self, world and our relationships to different phenomena. It is also about opening up to a discovery and the encounter with the unknown inside oneself and the world through the creative process.

Some of the themes that I have worked with and that occupy me are storytelling by different means, the role of myth and the phenomenon of language, its role in our self-imaginary and our relationship to it.

The combination, the intersection and the synthesis of different themes, concepts and modalities of work that Kristen and I have brought into the project has given rise to a really engaging and interesting collaborative process and generated new fascinating avenues of possible explorations and discovery.

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This token is part of The Floor Exhibit co-curated by the NFT Museum of Newberry, SC and Fort Gallery NFT.