That is the starting point of my creative experiment "The Narrative Machine" during which I created prompts based on literary language from 3 amazing novels that inspired me: "El cielo de la selva" (Elaine Vilar Madruga); "Dogs of summer" (Andrea Abreu); and "Bad girls" (Camila Sosa Villada).
How does AI interpret something as human as metaphors or visual language? Where lies the role of the creator? Is it in the final result and technique? Is it within the whole creative process?
To what extent does the gaze (human and artificial) change the contemplated object? Do humans connect with generated images in a similar way to how a reader connects with literary text?
This experiment was published in CreAtIva Magazine Vol. 5, an international pioneering magazine in Generative AI, design and creativity, in collaboration with LABoral Centro de Arte and FOXYLAB NY.
‘Black plane oil’
– Bad Girls tells the story of a group of trans prostitutes surviving in Argentina, and the sisterhood that they built with love and tenderness, while dealing with the violence that invaded her lives in every way. These are characters who inhabit the danger, lives that are constantly at risk of explode and dissappear into smoke and thin air. This is a novel that paints a human loving picture contaminated by violence and pain: a deep pain that stains everything like thick black oil.
‘The swallowing jungle’
– El cielo de la selva is a wild novel, a dreamlike story about a group of women forced to get pregnant and give away their children as a sacrifice for the jungle, a cruel terrible God, in exchange of protection from a not less terrible real world. An exploration of human cruelty and terror, twisted family relationships and suffocating magical realism.
‘Un fisquito namás’
– Dogs of summer is an extraordinary tale about the prepubescence of two girls who live in the Canary Islands during the 90s. With a unique oral-first style full of localisms, the novel paints pictures about a young girl self-perception, friendship and love, social injustice and class gap, loss of inocence, exploration of sexuality and eating disorders.
