Project Description

The prompt is key in making art with AI. A prompt can be understood as an instruction. Yoko Ono’s book “Grapefruit” (first published in 1964) is composed of instructions, prompting the reader to have a variety of experiences - mentally, or possibly physically, if one is inclined. Accordingly, this project is titled “Yoko Ono AI.” Ono’s ‘prompts’ have been used to generate the AI imagery (I have also worked with the images, tried variations on the prompts, and in some cases enhanced image features). The prompts are integrated into the images so that their relevance is inescapable. They are like veils over the images, both obscuring them and imbuing them with intentions, Ono’s intentions.