Prompt Art Inquiry Series

Prompts are not mere commands.

They are languages of emotion, narrative, and cultural design.
This series explores AI-generated art through the eyes of a humanities scholar, not a visual artist — diving into how language becomes a medium of emotional and aesthetic engineering in generative systems.

The Prompt Art Inquiry Series

This series reframes prompting as more than an instruction —
It is a creative linguistic practice that choreographs emotion, juxtaposes concepts, and visualizes narrative.
Like a director or curator, the prompt engineer mines meaning from computational vastness, selecting what becomes “art.”

🧭 Series Overview

1. Discomfort & Misunderstanding – Emotional tensions around AI art

2. Language of Technology – How prompts design affect

3. Genre & Cultural Experimentation – Juxtaposition and aesthetic hybridity

4. Temporality & Sentiment – Narratives in still images

5. Identity of the Creator – What language do we use to make art?

Featured Image

A hunched old man rests his wrinkled hands on a keyboard. A small white light glows on the screen. He weeps silently—this is the moment he has searched for all his life.

Why this matters

Inspired by theoretical work on AI aesthetics, particularly:

• Wittgenstein’s limits of language

• Magritte’s treachery of images

• The metaphor of creators as miners in linguistic possibility spaces

This series doesn’t ask “Is AI art real art?”, but rather:
 “What does prompting reveal about how we create, feel, and perceive?”