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Sublime II, 2022
von • by Ceren Yönetim

Instagram: bionic.imagination

How long do you think it took the artist to generate this image? A

day, an hour, or maybe a minute? With the help of artificial intelli-

gence, digital artworks of this kind can now be created in a matter

of minutes. When Austrian design architect and 3D artist Ceren

Yönetim realised this, she initially considered the advance of arti-

ficial intelligence a threat to the human creative design process. In

the meantime, the Turkish-born planner uses the scenarios gener-

ated by artificial intelligence as a source of inspiration. Yönetim be-

lieves that the simplicity with which anyone can generate atmos-

pheric pictures and styles in no time at all is also helping people

to revolutionise architecture. Original scenarios that do not easily

emerge in a purely rule-based design process are created on the

basis of the knowledge of the creators by entering keywords in

DALL-E programmes. As the respective programmes learn to apply

individualised parameters over time, increasingly sophisticated

styles and characteristics can emerge. Yönetim, who researched

the growth behaviour of single-celled organisms as a source of in-

spiration for designers while she was working as a research assis-

tant at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, now integrates nat-

ural phenomena into her architectural visions: a lake as an endless

ceiling, veils of mist as façades and clouds forming dreamlike cas-
tles in the air. Even if the surrealist scenes of the Sublime series do

not provide concrete models for structures that are actually built

in reality, they do serve as a fabulous templates for architectural

utopias. Those who want to discover more works of this kind can

follow the artist’s Instagram account.