Artificial Aesthetics is a personal project revolving around the constantly evolving ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create art. This came to the forefront on 2023, when the Photographers Gallery hosted an artist takeover, where the only images featured were generated by AI.

As a working artist, Richard thought it was important to explore the relationships between artists and AI. Taking photographs taken by himself, Richard then described these images to DALL·E 2 to generate a replica of the original photograph in order to better understand how machine learning views the world we live in.

Blackpool Pier, 2021
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Lake Windermere, 2021
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