Artist of the Month: Clint Enns - Art Lottery

Clint Enns , artist, filmmaker, curator, and author from Winnipeg, Canada, straddles the boundaries between visual experimentation and media reflection. With his "Promptographies," he explores the dreams and hallucinations of artificial intelligence. His images emerge from the interplay of precise, often paradoxical text inputs and the unpredictable output of the algorithms—a process he describes as "art lottery."

Enns thus operates within a tradition that stretches from the pioneers of photography to Appropriation Art, bringing it into the present day of digital image production. Where Richard Prince once reimagined the Marlboro advertisement, Enns lets the cowboy dream anew – and fail. Humor, melancholy, and absurdity form the coordinates of his visual worlds. Whether doppelgangers, clowns, cowboys, or grotesque everyday scenes: a space always emerges in which intimacy tilts, myths disintegrate, and the abysmal becomes comic.

This is precisely the strength of these works: They are not just technical experiments, but reflections on ourselves, our cultural images, and our longing for meaning. Enns makes visible how closely beauty and the grotesque, seriousness and comedy, history and hallucination are intertwined—in the mirror of the machine, but also within us.

The works are available at AI Edition Berlin :
Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print, 40 × 40 cm, with 1 cm white margin, vintage 2025. Edition of 5 + 1 AP. Price: €900. Each work is signed, dated, and numbered by the artist (separate label).