© Amelyn Ng 2025
ALIEN-SPECIES
generative botanicals
AI-gen specimen A - default settingsBased on 2D PNG of kelp
AI-gen specimen B - low guidanceBased on 2D PNG of kelp
YEAR:
2025
TYPE:
generative vegetation, variously rendered
2025
TYPE:
generative vegetation, variously rendered
INFO:
How to reframe botanical science in an era of hybrids, aliens, and blurred boundaries between what is constructed and what is natural? Alien Species uses 3D tools and 3D AI generation to render fictional vegetation with a degree of botanical “realism,” and plays with the veracity of cyanotype as an indexical botanical print. The final print shown is titled Bloom (version #157), named after one frame in a 250-frame animated sequence of unfurling petals (aka a 3D physics animation of hair dynamics).
How to reframe botanical science in an era of hybrids, aliens, and blurred boundaries between what is constructed and what is natural? Alien Species uses 3D tools and 3D AI generation to render fictional vegetation with a degree of botanical “realism,” and plays with the veracity of cyanotype as an indexical botanical print. The final print shown is titled Bloom (version #157), named after one frame in a 250-frame animated sequence of unfurling petals (aka a 3D physics animation of hair dynamics).