About
Since the late 1990s, Albertine Meunier has been using the Internet as her core material. She produces works, tangible or not, casting an either sarcastic or poetic gaze on the world wide web. In this way, the artist encourages the viewers to reflect on the inner workings of a tool they use daily.
Works
HyperChips Series
ALBERTINE MEUNIER
2022-2023
303 digital images created with DALL-E
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In her HyperChips series, the artist repeated the prompt "Albertine Meunier eats sausages and fries" multiple times, staging her AI-generated-self in 303 images. These images give free rein to what AI understands from the prompt it was given.
In this iterative work, full of humor and poetry, presenting grotesque images produced by a first-generation AI, Albertine Meunier takes an ironic look at new technologies. Far from criticizing them negatively, she invites the viewers to use these new tools knowingly, to be aware of the mechanisms and implications of their actions, particularly in the field of AI and on the Internet.
This series was displayed at « AI, My Sparring Partner", an exhibition commissioned by Havas, Paris, 2024 and "The Portrait at the Dawn of Web3, reinventing a Genre", en exhibition presented at We Are, Paris, 2023.
NFT Stands for Nakamoto Female Touch
ALBERTINE MEUNIER
The NFT stands series invents new meanings for the acronym of non-fungible token, with reference to art history and crypto culture in particular. In this piece, the enigmatic Satochi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin, is used as an icon of a movement, then hijacked.
NFT Stands for No Future Trophy
ALBERTINE MEUNIER
The NFT stands series invents new meanings for the acronym of non-fungible token, with reference to art history and crypto culture in particular. In this piece, the portraits of the Queen of England is used as icons of a movement, then hijacked.