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Black Men Dancing

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Black Men Dancing” began as an exercise working with the male figure. She had been primarily celebrating the black femme form and pivoted to male bodies for this project. This was a time where Claudia was obsessed with making the AI generators produce Black people which required a surprising amount of effort. Somehow even black outlines were suggesting white identities an it took specific prompts and specialized fine tuning data to get this result. She fed in images references from sports, history, and dance. Music paired with video is On Time – Metro Boomin & John Legend

Woman

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “WOMAN” began as an exercise in creating a series of Black women dancing. It was actually a complicated task of using different prompts to get images that resulted in the right images. The machine kept producing white dominant images if Claudia was not specific. The animation was meant to evoke Black joy and femme power. She named the piece “Woman” and searched for a song to add to the animation. She chose the song Woman from Doja Cat.

HER

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “HER” began as a exercise to make a woman walk with apowerfist in the air. Claudia made a collage using different elements and fed it through a generator to produce hundreds of images. The artistic impulse was one to add collaged images that would inspire the machine to produce what she wanted. When she shared the animation online she added the Megan the Stallion song Her and names the piece after that.

Funky Girl

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Funky Girl” was inspired by a tiktok artist named Fungkiigrrl’s video where she edited herself dancing with cool visuals.

Sis You a Bad Bitch

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Sis You a Bad Bitch” began with a collage of a Black woman. I used the AI generators to generate versions that were screaming in joy, pain, or standing in their power. I edited an animation that cycled through these different emotions. I added the music Sis You A Bad Bitch 2.0 by Shariya Wise and named the piece after the song.

Black Woman Spins Worlds

Claudia Alick’s “Black Woman Spins Worlds”

Vader Thanksgiving

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Vader Thanksgiving” started with a desire to make a video that juxtaposed fascistic imagery with wholesome family centric imagery. It was Thanksgiving and Claudia was thinking about the evil origins of the holiday. She took traditional pilgrim imagery and generated images from it only choosing the most disturbing versions. She asked the platform to produce Darth Vader in a variety of idyllic of Thanksgiving Day themed scenes. After editing the images she added music from the Star Wars Holiday Special with Carrie Fisher.

black women dont owe you anything 3 by claudia alick

Black Woman Don’t Owe You Anything

Claudia Alick’s “Black Superwoman” began as an exercise and became something more than the concept. The blends of vibrant colors, diversity of Black femme faces and choices of texture all carry powerful messages. I chose bright colors like red, white, and blue, and expanded by adding oranges and purple. It was meant to reference patriotic pallets as well as african-american styles and feminine iconography. In the art, there are lots of different hairstyles and head coverings that Black women wear.

Small Town Stormtroopers

Small Town Stormtroopers was created by Claudia lick. She was inspired by fascists imagery and beautiful things she pulled from growing up in a predominantly white small town. Many people have an idolized vision of police in their communities. This is satirical and meant to conjure the ridiculous. We laugh to keep from crying.

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