oddkin | unfinished_configurations

Prompt: Create a bioluminescent black and white image of a jellyfish making trouble in the world. Play with light to create unique shadows and depth as the jellyfish stirs up the tumultuous waters, signifying the unsettled times of our world.Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

“Trouble is an interesting word. It derives from a thirteenth-century French verb meaning ‘to stir up,’ ‘to make cloudy’,’to disturb.’ We — all of us on Terra — live in disturbing times, mixed-up times, troubling and turbid times. The task is to become capable, with each other in all of our bumptious kinds, of response. Mixed-up times are overflowing with both pain and joy — with vastly unjust patterns of pain and joy, with unnecessary killing of ongoingness but also with necessary resurgence. The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present.

Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent responses to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places. In urgent times, many of us are tempted to address trouble in terms of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future, of clearing away the present and the past in order to make futures for coming generations. Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future. In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings.

…Staying with the trouble requires making oddkin; that is, we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become-with each other or not at all.”

Donna Haraway in Staying with the Trouble

Drawing on the ideas and themes from “Staying with the Trouble” by Donna Haraway, the app encourages users to explore the complex and mixed-up times we live in and consider our relationship with the natural world.

Prompt: Create an image that evokes being truly present and stirring up potent responses to devastating events. Make use of bioluminescence, black & white and play with light to capture the mood of staying with the trouble and weaving lines of inventive connection with a jellyfish as the central elements. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

oddkin | unfinished_configurations leverages the captivating beauty of jellyfish and the evocative potential of bioluminescence to create a synthetic counterpoint with Haraway’s text.

Prompt: Create an image that captures the turbulent nature of our current times by combining jellyfish, bioluminescence, black and white, and playing with light in a way that captures the complex emotions of troubles and turmoil. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

The app chains calls to both the Davinci and Dall-e AI models to generate prompts, questions and images inspired by Haraway’s text mixed with my strange dreams with bioluminescent jellyfish in the dark depths of earth oceans.

Prompt: Create an image that captures the turbulent nature of our current times by combining jellyfish, bioluminescence, black and white, and playing with light in a way that captures the complex emotions of troubles and turmoil. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

The models are used in chain to generate infinite prompts and black and white images of jellyfish that highlight their natural beauty, their synthetic provenance as an image and the turmoil of the world around us.

Prompt: What will you create when the times are troubling, turbid, and mixed-up? How will you stir up the waters and make kin with each other in lines of inventive connection? What kind of trouble will you make in order to foster a thick present and learn to live and die well with each other? Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

Through this combination of synthetic media and the interplay of text and visuals, the app encourages users to engage with complex and challenging ideas about nature and culture in multiple demantic dimensions.

Prompt: Create an image that captures this moment in history — one of trouble, pain, joy and “inventive connection”. Play with bioluminescent light and stark black and white tones to capture both the disquiet and joy of this moment with a jellyfish as a powerful metaphor for connection and transformation. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

By highlighting the complex delicacy of jellyfish and the evocative potential of bioluminescence and its synthetic generation in the images, the app encourages us to see the urgency and the beauty simultaneously.

Prompt: Capture the mysterious beauty of a jellyfish in an underwater bioluminescent world of black and white. Create a photograph that highlights the intricate connection between all living things, while playing with light to illustrate the unique unpredictability of life. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

By exploring these ideas through the lens of Haraway’s text and dreamlike jellyfish, the app encourages us to reflect on our own relationship with the natural world and our creations. It prompts us to consider how we can respond to the challenges when facing alien entities such as jellyfish and perhaps AI models.

Prompt: Create an image of the present moment that encapsulates the power of resilience and the beauty of transformation. Use bioluminescence, black and white, and play with light to emphasize the eerie, mysterious jellyfish of life’s turbulent waters. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

Hopefully we are prompted to reflect on our commingling with beautiful and ephemeral oddkins.

Prompt: Create an image inspired by the idea of staying with the trouble: explore the concept of turbulent waters, mixed-up times and stirring up potent responses with a jellyfish, bioluminescence, black and white, and play with light. Prompt and image generated with https://oddkin.netlify.app/

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