From the Series Revolution (No. 13)
2024
AI-based image generation (Midjourney, Tengrai); prompts generated with a customised ChatGPT; post-production: Lightroom
39 × 26 cm
Focusing on the possibility of realistically depicting the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, my research examined the limits of the realism of AI-generated imagery and on how such practices might influence our relationship to the past. In order to illustrate the above, my concept was to generate images that do not depart excessively from reality. At times, however, I deliberately deviated from this principle to provide some interpretative support for viewers who are less familiar with recognising synthetic images.
photo: Koncz Olivér
From the Series Revolution (No. 15)
2024
AI-based image generation (Midjourney, Tengrai); prompts generated with a customised ChatGPT; post-production: Lightroom
39 × 26 cm
Focusing on the possibility of realistically depicting the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, my research examined the limits of the realism of AI-generated imagery and on how such practices might influence our relationship to the past. In order to illustrate the above, my concept was to generate images that do not depart excessively from reality. At times, however, I deliberately deviated from this principle to provide some interpretative support for viewers who are less familiar with recognising synthetic images.
photo: Koncz Olivér
Olivér Koncz
(2003, Budapest)
Olivér Koncz graduated from the Metropolitan University of Budapest (METU) in 2024 with a BA in Photography and is currently studying for an MA in Media Design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). He learned the professional basics of photography in secondary school and then honed his skills in university workshops, and his practice is characterised by documentary and experimental photography, as well as image-generating models. In his BA thesis, he examined the realism of AI images through a reinterpretation of the Revolution of ‘56 in Hungary, focusing on the distorting effect of artificial images on authenticity; an excerpt from this was featured in the exhibition Real and Artificial Identities at the Kiscelli Museum (2025). He was featured in the exhibition Között – PIM–METU collab feat. NNA (2023). He participated in the performance Deviants/Irresponsibles (2024) by Kérész Művek and in the LifePaths project (2024).