“My practice has always been shaped by technology and I embrace the aesthetic tension that digital materiality imposes on the work to redefine it and offer new questions about it.”
The conversations I am having with my work today are about contradictions of conscience, the appropriation of art, and the role that A.I. is playing in my practice. I live and work on a sanctuary preserve which has a tremendous effect on the way that I portray nature in my art. I witness an untamed landscape that sparks complex narratives of an imbalance in the natural world. Early American and European landscape painting have influenced my ideals of nature, and weaving historical imagery into the work embeds a sense of nostalgia for it. But reconstructing these landscapes suggests discord in the environmental story.
Collaborating with AI, I am creating environments of a fleeting world. My practice has always been shaped by technology and I embrace the aesthetic tension that digital materiality imposes on the work to redefine it and offer new questions about it.
Carol Bouyoucos, born 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, is a contemporary American artist whose work explores the intersection between nature and technology. Carol’s digital photographic works evoke a romanticism and nostalgia of nineteenth century painting, though created with distinctly 21st century tools. She has exhibited her work internationally, and considers her most successful efforts to be her collaborations with fellow artists and curators. Carol holds a BFA from The University of Michigan’s School of Art And Design.
