Dice Rolling is a project in collaboration with artist & designer Giovanni Zanda. Each month we will publish a selected images generated by Midjourney, a prompt-to-image AI software. The project has a purely experimental and aesthetic purpose, our goal is to have fun and to produce unexpected images. For a more layered reading, we invite you to read the article in which artist Hito Steyerl speaks about the definition of "poor image".
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ASIDE’s logo talks through its simplicity. Reminiscent of a coin, it still has the materiality of a small penny in one's pocket, while symbolising a digital piggy bank.
HAZY MICRO-SHAPES
Two images reminiscent of photos taken under a microscope.
1. An organic net of rock-textured tubes, intersecting each other. Its colour is acid green. The background is out of focus and is formed by shades of lilac and blue.
2. Out-of-focus image of flat circular globule-like shapes resting on a flat surface, slightly overlapping each other. They are transparent, yet opaque, of a material similar to sea glass. Their colour varies from tea-green to periwinkle.
LOGO
ASIDE’s logo talks through its simplicity. Reminiscent of a coin, it still has the materiality of a small penny in one's pocket, while symbolising a digital piggy bank.
THE FIGHT
Four vintage amateur film photos taken at night, during a house party.
1. A man and four of his friends are outside the house. He’s angry and looks off camera. His friends are in the background angry as well. He is wearing a red pyjama-like long sleeve t-shirt and a matching sleeping bonnet.
2. Group of people are doing a mosh pit in front of a decorated house-shaped wooden board.
3. Two guys are outside. The one on the left is slightly in the background. He’s wearing a yellow and green latex power ranger-like costume and a matching helmet. The guy on the right is in the foreground. He’s wearing a white t-shirt and light purple sweatpants. They’re both wearing silvered combat gloves and they’re mimicking fighting moves. A kid in the distance is watching them.
4. Another guy and three friends of him are outside the house. He’s angry and looks off camera. His friends are in the background and they’re also angry. They are looking at the people of the first photo. He’s wearing a red and silvered long sleeve t-shirt and he has an 80s bob haircut. His friends are wearing power ranger-like costume.
LOGO
ASIDE’s logo talks through its simplicity. Reminiscent of a coin, it still has the materiality of a small penny in one's pocket, while symbolising a digital piggy bank.
PLANT'S CHEMORECEPTORS ANTENNAE
Two images of non exiting plants.
1. A light green branched succulent-like plant. The tips of its branches are pink and green, with a very specific shape, but hard to describe at the same time. Their shape is similar to extruded almonds.
2. A green succulent-like plant, with protruding and symmetrical yellow dots. Its shape reminds of an upside down letter A. Its body is fluted.
