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Prof. Jill Miller's critical NFT project

Jill Miller, "ARIEL STINKS: Ariel the Stock Boy," NFT, size variable

Professor Jill Miller’s NFT artwork series, ARIEL STINKS (50 Alternative Covers to Thrash and Burn), is featured on Artnet and Billboard. She uses artificial intelligence to create portraits of a musician who used her unauthorized image on his album cover. Her project was curated by Margarita Kuleva for the digital platform TAEX.

From Min Chen’s story on Artnet:
“When Jill Miller found a photograph of her face had been used without her consent on an Ariel Pink album cover, she could have addressed the violation in any number of ways. Calling it out online maybe, or even bringing suit. But why do that, she reckoned, when, as an artist, she could respond with an art project?

Generated using A.I. software and released as NFTs, these digital works are grouped into four themes, largely centering Pink in a variety of absurd scenarios. There’s Ariel Pink as a sad clown, as a TSA agent, working at Walmart, with a pet skunk, and on a field trip to D.C. (a scene referencing the January 6 U.S. capitol riot, where Pink was in attendance), his face often warped by the algorithm. Every cover bears the phrase “ARIEL STINKS” for its added “comedic potential,” per Miller.” 

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Jill Miller, "ARIEL STINKS: Ariel Diane Arbus Vibe," NFT, size variable

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