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

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.