:: Slow Down Time - Video Experiment #05 ::

A study in synthetic biology using the text-to-image service Midjourney in collaboration with academic Wajeehah Aayeshah.

The prompt Wajeehah posed was a futurist bio-tech move: "Teleporting through Smart Plants." RunwayML frame interpolation process was used to blend 37 images from the Smart Plants series into an evolving sequence. On the Midjourney side, further stylistic and technical parameters were used to amplify the prompt.

Procedural Notes

The aim of this assemblage was to explore an organic luminescent thread which began appearing in Wajeehah's prompt, "Teleporting through Smart Plants."

To emphasize the virtual laboratory feel of the generated images, I supplemented the prompt with some stylistic and technical parameters, like “metaverse” and “biotech”. What is interesting here is that the initial generations are essentially pastel abstract designs, the type of stuff you might find hanging in a dental surgery or in a highway motel that is trying to spruce things up a bit. However, this quickly evolves into the fantasy world of sci-fi - Annihilation meets The Day of the Triffids - flora-hacking for the Anthropocene. Pinks, violets, oranges and luminescent greens and electric blues become increasingly pronounced as the organic material morphs into something alien. We could feed quantum computers on this stuff!

Reference Links

Project Site :: Slow Down Time
Wajeehah Aayeshah :: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/782806-wajeehah-aayeshah
Wajeehah Aayeshah, Smat Plants series :: https://slowdowntime4.wordpress.com/wajeehah-aayeshah/