XXX Instansia
AI generated erotic deepfakes on polaroid film
Utilising the Polaroid’s status as a proto-networked form of pornography to explore synthetic desire, each image in this series of polaroids is a deepfake of the artist, derived from an archive of pornographic Polaroids and printed onto the same instant film that once served as the first infrastructure of domestic erotic exchange. Its labless immediacy made it a discreet technology of intimacy, allowing photographs to be produced, possessed and circulated without institutional oversight, just as contemporary AI pornography allows users to generate and share erotic images from the privacy of their devices through text prompts and online networks.
Working from this archive, the project uses CLIP-based descriptions of vintage Polaroid scenes as prompts for a diffusion model trained on the artist’s image. The resulting images echo aesthetic signals from the original material while pushing the figure into synthetic, unstable forms where the body begins to read as a composite of dataset traits rather than a single subject.
In this way, XXX Instansia links two regimes of amateur networked image-making: the analogue traffic of Polaroids passed hand to hand, and the prompt-driven traffic of AI porn circulating through feeds. Each print sits between these systems, showing how computational erotics fragment, distort and recombine the feminine body and how the pornographic woman emerges from an infrastructure that treats the body as a commodity to be modelled, optimised and endlessly resynthesised.
