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The World Is Beautiful Again
Sebastian: This is a demo
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ecem: The Dundee playground on making - that the toy donations by the neighbourhood are accepted
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ecem: Dundee social stairs
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ecem: collective maker space opening, please come grab your free food and drinks
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Christoph Knoth: the sky is made of power lines
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Christoph Knoth: trash can with clear signage!
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Laura Herman: Done with Caroline Tosin :)
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Laura Herman: Repaired with Caroline Tosin :)
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Christoph Knoth: Karen's Hotel
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Sebastian: I tried, at least your house bigger, enjoy the extra room :)
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Christoph Knoth: more cables!
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Christoph Knoth: a pink band on their way to their concert
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Sebastian: I coudln't open the door but I've left a key, so please open the door and reopen the workshop – the logo is beautiful
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sebastian: The only way SUVs should be driven
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lina: :)
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sebastian: Hey, I hope this is what you wanted :)
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lina: repaired again because someone suggested making it an electric car
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sebastian: Maybe I made it worse.
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sebastian: I wasn't sure how to approach this, and if to "repair" this photo at all. Does it make sense to now mark it as "the world is beautiful again"? Probably not. But maybe this is a start, something we all are desperate to see happening.
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sebastian: I could have generated an entirely new surrounding for the person, but that felt a bit like removing the person from the city altogether. Instead I tried to add helpful things, step by step, to make the sitation more comfortable. Not sure this is exactly what the person in the photo would want.
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About
The World Is Beautiful Again invites the audience to submit photographs that depict something that they consider should be changed, repaired or removed: from problems of a personal nature to global issues that are affecting the planet. Submitted photos are “fixed” by the artists using AI tools to manipulate the image. This happens weekly during "repair sessions" that are livestreamed on Twitch.
A project by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg, 2023
Commissioned by Fotomuseum Winterthur in the framework of [permanent.beta]
The World Is Beautiful Again takes its playful starting point in the 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) by German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch. The highly acclaimed photobook uncovers the inherent beauty and clarity of the world through a sober yet appealing depiction of everyday scenes and objects and is an iconic instance of the New Objectivity movement.
The project by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg invites the audience to submit photographs that depict something that they consider should be changed, repaired or removed: from problems of a personal nature to global issues that are affecting the planet. Submitted photos are “fixed” by the artists using AI tools to manipulate the image. The newly created photographs show the world beautiful again – what was once broken is now repaired and newly imagined. By showcasing the performative process of their AI-generated repair work, the artists playfully question the efficiency-driven and solutionist ideas behind the narratives of artificial intelligence and make the viewer aware of the image’s potential to create simplified models of the world.
At the same time, The World Is Beautiful Again explores whether AI-generated images, because of their easy malleability, could be seen as expressions of possibility spaces that prompt us to question ourselves and our environment: Why are things the way they are and not otherwise? What alternatives are there? And what might forms of repair look like?
—Marco De Mutiis, Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur