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Imagery · Synthetic & found

Generative imagery

Code-, algorithm- or AI-generated pictures.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under imagery: what kind of pictures, if any?

styles make it: 9
as a defining choice: 4
as a usual one: 1
now and then: 4
avoid it: 0

Styles defined by it 4

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Demoscene Graphics (Cracktros, Demos & Text-Mode Art)1985–present · Northern Europe, Central Europe, Western Europe, North America, Global / networkedThe graphics of the demoscene, a mainly European community of coders, graphicians and musicians that grew from the intros software crackers added to pirated Commodore 64 and Amiga games in the mid-1980s.
Generative & Dynamic Identities2007–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, North AmericaIdentity systems designed as rules rather than fixed marks: logos and graphics generated by code, data or parameters so that they vary endlessly while staying recognisable.
NFT Profile-Picture Collections (CryptoPunks to Bored Apes)2017–present · Global / networked, North AmericaSets of thousands of avatar portraits that code assembles from one or two hundred hand-drawn traits, each sold as a token on a blockchain.
Generative-AI Image Aesthetic2022–present · Global / networkedThe house look of pictures synthesised by text-to-image diffusion models since 2022.

Styles that often use it 1

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Glitch Art & Datamosh Graphics2001–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe, North AmericaAn art and design practice that makes digital failure the picture.

Styles that use it now and then 4

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Other choices in imagery