PROJECT(ED)
EVERYWHERE
Synthetic Media Project
For Project Anywhere
A series of generative AI images produced on the occasion of the launch of online archive Project Anywhere via an invitation from the project’s curator, Sean Lowry.
Sean and I had chats about how “anywhere” might be “seen”, never mind “where” it might be. We also talked about absence and deep space and Robert Barry. I was thinking about Richard Long and David Bowie imagining the Internet on BBC Newsnight back in 1999. Pangs of archive fever, prompt wrangling can do that to you.
Sean might have also mentioned Duchamp and the readymade, but it was a bad connection - he was out walking his dog on a brisk and wooly Melbourne morning - so he might have well said, “everything is pre-made”. Which makes sense, Gen-AI is a lot like that.
Edition 18-A4B1
Image Prompt: Project Anywhere in deep space. In the style of Georges Méliès’ Kingdom of the Fairies, 1903.
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 18-A4B1 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #121daff6-6eb7-4292-970d-4d391e8eddd7
Edition 19-A3D2
Image Prompt: “The exterior space between the paintings, as opposed to the interior space within the paintings, is activated.”
Source: Quote by Alexandra Nicolaides in 'Robert Barry: All the things I know ... 1962 to present', The Brooklyn Rail, March 2015
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 19-A3D2 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #91e9e3c5-ea71-4796-8fff-beaa8e393435
(Image selected for the promotion of the Project Anywhere archive via ArtForum).
Edition 05-A3
Image Prompt: "A journey from the square to the circle, where the square symbolises rationality and logical structure, Western Science and philosophy. The circle, on the other hand, symbolises wisdom, holistic awareness, Eastern mysticism and eternity.” In the style of Kenneth Noland.
Source: Quote by Robert Barry, in 'Going for a Walk with a Line' by Catherine Mason, The Tickle, Issue #87, October 9, 2023
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 05-A3 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #c8745b2d-bfb1-44a3-ada9-6575977b924e
Edition 13-A1
Image Prompt: All the things I know but of which I am not at the moment thinking – 1:36 PM; June 15, 1969. In the style of Robert Barry.
Source: From the title of the work by Robert Barry.
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 13-A1 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #84d2f91f-142d-43ca-a34d-eb4494e7899c
Editions 12C-A4 & 12D-A2
Image Prompt: A journey from the square to the circle, where the square symbolises rationality and logical structure, Western Science and philosophy. The circle, on the other hand, symbolises wisdom, holistic awareness, Eastern mysticism and eternity. Computer image from an oscilloscope by Dominic Boreham. Monocrome, cathode ray.
Source: The Conceptual Framework of My Computer-Assisted Drawings: Reflections on Physics, Buddhism and Transactional Psychology by Dominic Boreham. Leonardo, Vol. 25, No. 2 (1992), pp. 119-127
Additional image prompt: Still frame from Kathryn Bigelow's “Strange Days”, (Universal Studios, 1995), and “Going for a walk with a line” by Dominic Boreham, GV Art London, 1977) reproduced from The Tickle, Issue #87
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Editions 12C-A4 and 12D-A2 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #8c93988b-7bfc-4455-8c39-1d82797a14a3
Edition 13-A1
Image Prompt: "A journey from the square to the circle, where the square symbolises rationality and logical structure, Western Science and philosophy. The circle, on the other hand, symbolises wisdom, holistic awareness, Eastern mysticism and eternity.” In the style of Kenneth Noland.
Quote by Robert Barry, in 'Going for a Walk with a Line' by Catherine Mason, The Tickle, Issue #87, October 9, 2023
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 06-A3 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #2574869e-c8a7-4f73-8480-e0f04f56b1f7
Edition 46-A3
Image Prompt: The edge of the galaxy, a thin beam of blue irradesecnt light divides the image in two, in the background the edge of the universe stretches out forever. Interstellar, Space Odyssey, Koyaanisqatsi, NASA, James Webb, JPL, infra-red composite image.
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 46-A3 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #327bbab8-49e4-493a-a10a-2cd4f2b313fb
Edition 19C-A1B3
Image Prompt: "The exterior space between the paintings, as opposed to the interior space within the paintings, is activated.”
Source: Quote by Alexandra Nicolaides in 'Robert Barry: All the things I know ... 1962 to present', The Brooklyn Rail, March 2015
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 19C-A1B3 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #69968be3-9533-42d5-84a5-6dd8a3a1614b
Edition 17-A1B2
Image Prompt: "Artistic research at the outermost limits of location-specificity."
Source: Quote extracted from the Project Anywhere archive (https://www.projectanywhere.net/about/).
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 17-A1B2 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #a905f934-af89-47a9-8c3b-fbc563609be0
(Image selected for the promotion of the Project Anywhere archive via e-flux).
Edition 01-A3E1
Image Prompt: Project Anywhere
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 01-A3E1 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #201a054b-7f96-4013-b21d-cd1d30bfd0d0
Edition 20-A2B3
Image Prompt: “The exterior space between the paintings, as opposed to the interior space within the paintings, is activated.”
Source: Quote by Alexandra Nicolaides in 'Robert Barry: All the things I know ... 1962 to present', The Brooklyn Rail, March 2015
Image Credit: Mitch Goodwin w/ Midjourney, Edition 20-A2B3 from the series "Project(ed) Everywhere", Melbourne, Australia 2024.
Midjourney Job ID: #cce598fa-2711-40df-bce6-7c9c91d5d0ad