Sep 20, 2024 · When I began sharing my experiments with generative AI—culminating in Cursed, a book of images that deliberately embraced the tool’s inherent visual distortions—I was quickly drawn into the...

Dec 16, 2024 · Feeding generative AI programme Midjourney with his photos over and over again, Charlie Engman created his new book, Cursed.

Jun 4, 2018 · On the face of it, then, it seems that the inherent placelessness and portability of digital images means that can’t be haunted, only cursed. And as such, cursed images are the perfect artifact of the current capitalism’s transnational gig economy, in which hypermediation is something to be scared of.

Dec 18, 2024 · Though “Cursed” does naturally veer into the realm of horror filmmakers, Engman steered clear of visual references and instead began reading texts related to critical disability theory.

Cursed Images is a dream-journal of late capitalism, a Gothic tarot of desire and fear. Driven by the cruelty of market society into wildernesses of neurasthenic horror, artists and lovers seek out phantoms of forgotten beauty.

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Aug 6, 2018 · It’s “cursed images of modernity” not “defend LOLberts and capitalism if the free market can’t speak for itself.”

A cursed image refers to a picture (usually a photograph) that is perceived as mysterious or disturbing due to its content, poor quality, or a combination of the two. A cursed image is intended to make a person question the reason for the image's existence in the first place.