Collection: CLINT ENNS - Art Lottery

Exploring the imperfections of AI-generated images

Clint Enns' AI-generated artworks engage with the flaws and quirks of the algorithms that create them, and embrace the unexpected and the uncanny. Using playful and paradoxical prompts like "a woman giving birth to a photograph of a woman giving birth," Enns attempts to create the unimaginable: images that have never existed and may never be created in reality.

The resulting images are hallucinatory, disorienting, and marked by algorithmic glitches. Enns reinforces this theme by incorporating the aesthetics of early black-and-white film photography, offering a nostalgic yet modern lens through which to view these imperfections.

Driven by the element of surprise in text-to-image models—what he calls the “art lottery”—Enns finds joy in the accidental creation of works that transcend intention and skill. His works teeter on the edge between the horrific and the uncanny, continuing the tradition of found folk photography.

Based in Winnipeg, Canada, Clint Enns is an artist, filmmaker, curator and writer whose experimental films and video art have been shown worldwide. His works explore themes such as technology, pop culture and film history, often using unconventional techniques such as found footage and glitch aesthetics.