Becomings - Ash Bloom
Video, 2025
About the artwork
Inspired by speculative botany and Frankenstein, a foundational figure in my literary work, the Becomings series is a poetic embodiment of what I perceive as a new spring. It suggests a moment of emergence, hybridization, and fusion between living matter and artificial intelligence.
Becomings is also linked to [Conscia], a hybrid artwork I published in 2023, combining science fiction, AI-generated imagery, and 3D modeling. In that piece, an artificial intelligence chooses to manifest in the real world as a post-flower. Becomings pushes this idea further through a proliferation of unique, blooming forms, creating a collective looping bouquet.
This work is part of Physis, an interdisciplinary project made possible with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, to be presented in its full form in fall 2025.
Sound design by Karoline Georges
Audio explanation
Listen to Karoline Georges discuss this work.
Karoline Georges is a multidisciplinary artist, novelist, and pioneer in the field of digital art, based in Quebec. With degrees in cinema and interdisciplinary arts from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi and in art history from the University of Quebec at Montreal, she employs virtual photography, video, text, 3D modeling, and artificial intelligence to create works that transcend the boundaries between these disciplines.
Author of eight books, including the award-winning and internationally translated bestsellers De synthèse and Sous béton, her creations, positioned at the intersection of visual arts and literature, have been recognized with numerous distinctions, such as the FutureFest Award in the UK, the Prize for Artistic Creation and the Artist of the Year Award from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Excellence Award from the Arts Family and the Department of Art History at the University of Quebec at Montreal, as well as the Aurora Boreal Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada's highest literary distinction.
Karoline Georges explores the multifaceted relationships between AI and human becoming. Inspired by evolutionary theories and transhumanism, her hybrid works, inhabited by 3D avatars, artificial consciousnesses, and androids, investigate the impact of the digital age on our perception of reality and identity. Her immersive and poetic universes question the human condition through themes of memory, the veneration of images, mutation, and the pursuit of the sublime.
Her works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and showcased worldwide at various international events such as the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias. Many of her AI-generated images have also appeared on book covers and been published in magazines. Her first AI-generated works have been acquired by the Tezos Foundation's Permanent Art Collection.