Cursed by Charlie Engman with Gideon Jacobs

Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body. In conversation with Gideon Jacobs, followed by a signing.

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In Cursed, Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body. This captivating portfolio of images unpicks AI’s characteristic gap between expectation and outcome, challenging our preconceptions of how the world should be and appear. Can simulation and collective knowledge drive innovation and individuation, or does the recycling of images and ideas doom us to repeat our failures? Can AI’s detachment from reality illuminate the blessing and the curse of “real life”?

Cursed stands as a testament to Engman’s visionary role in a rapidly evolving and highly contentious field, offering an immersive exploration of uncharted artistic territories and proposing a new paradigm for the future and possibilities of photography.

Charlie Engman is a New York-based artist, educator, and the art director of the sustainable fashion brand Collina Strada.He holds a degree in Japanese and Korean Studies from the University of Oxford. He is a recognized leader in the world of AI-generated art, and has created work in various media for clients including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Dazed, Prada, Gucci, Marni, Acne, Hermes, Vivienne Westwood, and Stella McCartney. He is the author of the books MOM (Edition Patrick Frey, 2020), I Care a Lotta, I Wear Collina Strada (Rizzoli, 2023), and Hello Chaos, a Love Story (SPBH and Mack Books, 2024)

Gideon Jacobs contributes to magazines on arts and culture, writes short fiction, and is currently working on a novel. He has lectured at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jeu de Paume, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, the School of Visual Arts, the New School, and elsewhere. Other projects include: M**der Suey, a novella co-written exquisite-corpse-style with Brad Phillips for Autre Magazine; Landing Pages, a literary installation with Lexie Smith at LaGuardia Airport commissioned by the NY/NJ Port Authority; Confession, a telephone hotline designed with Gregor Hochmuth that allowed strangers to anonymously unburden themselves, exhibited at Deli Gallery; Etsy DeVos, custom throw pillows made with Chloe Wise featuring erotic poems about Donald Trump’s cabinet members. He lives and works in Queens, NY.

Event Venue

Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States