MOTHER is an experimental, generative AI photofilm, by artist Beverley Hood, about motherhood. The film reconsiders representations of motherhood within generative AI imaging platforms, in response to the sanitised, heavily conditioned visual material that the subject, typically generates. The film follows a poetic visual narrative, teasing out the capabilities of the AI, working around the linguistic limits of modesty and categorisation in accepted prompts, and nudges the platform beyond its conventional, generic aesthetics, into richer, more evocative and visceral image making.
The work was generated from a poetic script, written by the artist in prose form based on personal experience of being a mother and carer. This was fed as text prompts into the generative AI software Adobe Firefly to create the still imagery for the film.
Beverley Hood is an artist and researcher based in Edinburgh. Since the mid-1990s, she has been delving into the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience, through the creation of digital media, performance art projects, and writing. Her work is interdisciplinary and research-led, undertaken in collaboration with a range of practitioners, including medical researchers, scientists, writers, technologists, dancers, actors, and composers.
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