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Location

Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets

New York, NY

Date

Start:

Dec 1, 2024

End:

Dec 30, 2024

Hours

Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am

Artist

Laurie Simmons

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Autofiction: Moving Pictures, Waiting & Looking Up
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Using AI to construct real and imagined scenes from her own life, Laurie Simmons’ Autofiction: Moving Pictures, Waiting & Looking Up follows a shape-shifting cast of women through a series of vignettes - from domestic settings and indoor pools, to city centers and desolate open roads - with an eerie, dream-like quality.

Shaping the imagery with experimental prompts, Simmons created the animated work with the AI platforms DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, marking a new development in the artist’s methodology and decades-long practice of mining personal memories and media constructions of gender roles. The surreal scenes in Autofiction hold the essence of Simmons’ signature style and conceptual inquiries as she wields new creative tools to expand her work into the digital form.

"I was used to collaborating with toymakers, makeup artists, body painters, and Photoshop editors, as well as sourcing images from the Picture Library,” says Simmons. “In July 2022 I started using AI text-to-image models, which I began calling ‘My Collaborators’, as the images we made together fit so seamlessly into the continuum of all my work. I love the way this new work finds a space between painting, photography, drawing and sculpture.”

Autofiction: Moving Pictures, Waiting & Looking Up was produced by Danielle Bartholomew. 

Support for Midnight Moment is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Times Square Advertising Coalition, with additional in-kind support from the Times Square Edition Hotel.

Midnight Moment is made possible by the Times Square Advertising Coalition, ABC SuperSign, American Eagle, Big Outdoor, Branded Cities, Clear Channel, Coca-Cola, Diversified, Express, Heritage Outdoor Media, Levi's, LG, Line Friends, McDonald's, Microsoft, Midtown Financial, Morgan Stanley, New Tradition, Outfront, Paramount, Prudential, Sensory Interactive, Sephora, Sherwood Equities, Show + Tell, Silvercast, Swatch, TSX, and T-Mobile.

National Endowment for the Arts logo   NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs logo   NYS Council on the Arts logo   Times Square Advertising Coalition logo

Using AI to construct real and imagined scenes from her own life, Laurie Simmons’ Autofiction: Moving Pictures, Waiting & Looking Up follows a shape-shifting cast of women through a series of vignettes - from domestic settings and indoor pools, to city centers and desolate open roads - with an eerie, dream-like quality.

Shaping the imagery with experimental prompts, Simmons created the animated work with the AI platforms DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, marking a new development in the artist’s methodology and decades-long practice of mining personal memories and media constructions of gender roles. The surreal scenes in Autofiction hold the essence of Simmons’ signature style and conceptual inquiries as she wields new creative tools to expand her work into the digital form.

"I was used to collaborating with toymakers, makeup artists, body painters, and Photoshop editors, as well as sourcing images from the Picture Library,” says Simmons. “In July 2022 I started using AI text-to-image models, which I began calling ‘My Collaborators’, as the images we made together fit so seamlessly into the continuum of all my work. I love the way this new work finds a space between painting, photography, drawing and sculpture.”

Autofiction: Moving Pictures, Waiting & Looking Up was produced by Danielle Bartholomew. 

Support for Midnight Moment is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Times Square Advertising Coalition, with additional in-kind support from the Times Square Edition Hotel.

Midnight Moment is made possible by the Times Square Advertising Coalition, ABC SuperSign, American Eagle, Big Outdoor, Branded Cities, Clear Channel, Coca-Cola, Diversified, Express, Heritage Outdoor Media, Levi's, LG, Line Friends, McDonald's, Microsoft, Midtown Financial, Morgan Stanley, New Tradition, Outfront, Paramount, Prudential, Sensory Interactive, Sephora, Sherwood Equities, Show + Tell, Silvercast, Swatch, TSX, and T-Mobile.

National Endowment for the Arts logo   NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs logo   NYS Council on the Arts logo   Times Square Advertising Coalition logo
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Broadway between 41st and 49th Streets

New York, NY

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Nightly, 11:57pm – 12am

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