Ellie Pritts

United States of America

Ellie Pritts (she/they) is a renowned transmedia artist exploring reinterpreted nostalgia via recursive analog and digital processes. Pritts offers unique and mind-expanding experiences through her work, inviting viewers to explore her immersive, other-worldly realm.

Oscillating between her taste for the texture of film and the clarity of the digital process, Pritts creates a way to share—quite literally—how she perceives the world. Having synesthesia, a condition where she experiences one sense through another, Pritts’s life and work are shaped by the colours of sounds, the sound of people, and the colour of words. Acutely aware of her environment and how she uniquely experiences it, Pritts brings to life a visuality of conscious mind expansion. Her (new) “old school” tools enable her to revive the visual language and culture of the fin-de-siècle.


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Antipathy Tries

Video self-portrait made using circuit bent hardware + AI



“Antipathy Tries” is one of a series artworks from the ‘Amaranthine Reveries’ collection by Ellie Pritts. These are AI animated self-portrait videos exploring the boundaries between our physical bodies and the essence of who we are at our core. In Pritts’ practice using themselves as source material with AI, they find that the AI feels much more empathetic to who they are than they are to themself. The outputs are devoid of inner criticisms and body dysmorphia, an unexpected but ultimately very liberating result.

“Antipathy Tries” is part of the exhibition ALGORITHMIC EMPATHY. THE PROMISES OF AI, presented by EXPANDED.ART and VerticalCrypto Art at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin, 18-23 April, 2023.

17 artists explore the vast potential of future relationships between AI and creative expression to hypothesize on the not-so-distant future.

In a world where technological advancements happen in the blink of an eye, AI is being pointed to in the cultural zeitgeist as an example of a potentially bleak and ominous future. It is worth considering, however, the ways computers and machine learning can push forward creativity, human connection and philosophical dialogues.

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2023

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