When OpenAI unveiled DALL-E 2, an advanced AI system capable of generating images from a text description, Modem tasked it with creating images based on haikus by 17th-century master Matsuo Bashō. The result is DALL-E 2 DREAMS OF HAIKUS, a poignant exploration of the expressive abilities of AI, and its potential to shift the boundaries of human imagination.
Modem is an office for design and innovation based in Amsterdam. Working as a hybrid between a think-tank and design studio, it envisions how human minds and institutions can thrive in the midst of exponential technological change.