Boris Eldagsen is an intermedia artist whose work explores the boundaries between human and machine consciousness. He uses the generative tools of artificial intelligence to create images that are not documents of reality, but rather visual outcomes that reflect collective memory and cultural stereotypes. His approach combines philosophical skepticism with a poetics of disrupted memory and a conceptual emphasis on the role of the author in the age of algorithmic remix. Promptography, as he calls this approach, is not just a technique but a way of thinking: a method that deliberately undermines the notion of originality, style and unique handwriting. Eldagsen profiles himself as an ethical hack of visual culture rather than its traditional creator. His works are often interventions in the system and triggers of discussion about whose voice we really hear in art.

Bio


Boris Eldagsen lives and works in Berlin. He studied photography and visual arts at the Academy of Arts in Mainz, Germany, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and fine arts at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication in Hyderabad, India. He also studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz. He has gained international attention as a pioneer in working with AI-generated images, which he terms "promptography". In 2023, he opened a global debate on the relationship between photography and artificial intelligence by rejecting the Sony World Photography Awards. His work has been featured at the Kochi, Le Havre and Essen Biennials, the Melbourne, Shenzhen, Montréal and Kaunas festivals, and institutions such as the California Museum of Photography and BACC Bangkok. He is a member of the German Academy of Photography and one of the founding members of the AI working group of the German Photographic Council. He is currently teaching “AI for Creatives” at LABASAD, Barcelona School of Arts & Design.