"Sonnet 127 / My mistress’ eyes are raven black."
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Download as PDFThe Dark Lady Sonnets: A First Ig-Nobel, V-V, Turing Experiment • 28 artworks
This is a first, facile, visuo-verbal Turing experiment with an AI art generator (NightCafe) that uses[...]
This is a first, facile, visuo-verbal Turing experiment with an AI art generator (NightCafe) that uses word prompts. I utilized the stable diffusion selection and bounced images around between the styles available in January 2023. I decided to use William Shakespeare’s, so-called, Dark Lady sonnets for my word prompts – choosing a line or lines from each that I considered best expressed the mood of the sonnet collection as a whole. There is much speculation about the identity of Shakespeare’s lady who is described as having black hair and eyes and dun colored skin. Interestingly, when working on sonnet 130, I chose the lines, “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; / If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.”, but the program informed me that I was using prohibited words – presumably, ‘breasts’. This problem aside, the program produced interesting, if arbitrary images: arbitrary that is, in its inability to parse erotic, poetic description from prose descriptions of physical attributes. Possibly when algorithmic reproduction of human thought passes the Turing test, the algorithms will recognize iambic pentameter and the sonnet form, and I will be allowed to use the word ‘breasts’. I have attached the sonnet in question to each image and denoted the words I used as generators. The provenance of the starter images is unknown (and Getty Images, I notice, is in the process of suing stable diffusion for unlicensed use of photographs). There is also some discussion as to what constitutes novel iteration of primary images, so perhaps authorship of these images should read: W. Shakespeare and W. Tilley et al. (Following download, the images were re-sized to 720px for publication, and edited for tone, color and contrast, otherwise the dark lady and her poetic attributes are AI artifacts. There is a second experiment (unpublished) based upon a well-known poem by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678 'To his coy mistress'.
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"Sonnet 131/ Thy black is fairest in my judgement’s place."
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"Sonnet 135 / Shall will in others seem right gracious."
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"Sonnet 139 / Slay me not by art"
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"Sonnet 143 / Kiss me, be kind"
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"Sonnet 147 / Black as hell, as dark as night"
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"Sonnet 151/ Love is too young to know what conscience is."
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"Sonnet 128 / Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss."
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"Sonnet 132 / As those two mourning eyes become thy face."
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"Sonnet 136 / Make but my name thy love"
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"Sonnet 140 / This ill-wresting world is grown so bad"
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"Sonnet 144 / / The worser spirit a woman coloured ill."
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"Sonnet 148 / The sun itself sees not, till heaven clears"
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"Sonnet 152 / To swear against the truth so foul a lie"
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"Sonnet 129/ To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell."
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"Sonnet 133 / Prison my heart in thy steel bosom’s ward."
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"Sonnet 137 / Fair truth upon so foul a face"
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"Sonnet 141 / She that makes me sin awards me pain"
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"Sonnet 145 / Lips that Love’s own hand did make."
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"Sonnet 149 / But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind."
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"Sonnet 153 / Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep."
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"Sonnet 130 / My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun."
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"Sonnet 134 / For thou art covetous"
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"Sonnet 138 / Age in love, loves not to have years told"
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"Sonnet 142 / Love is my sin"
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"Sonnet 146 / So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men"
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"Sonnet 150 / If thy unworthiness raised love in me ...."
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"Sonnet 154 / Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love"
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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael W. Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theatre at The Old Vic in a production of Antony and Cleopatra in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear. “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. Following an MA degree at the Royal College of Art, London, an interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, where he designed a brain science exploratorium (BrainBox). Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan (The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works), in 2003. A novel (The Ladyboy Murders) was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers in 2015. In November/December 2017, he held a second retrospective at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo. And a recent portrait (Manami-san) is part of the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, touring five galleries nationally (2023-2024).
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JAPAN
- Date of birth : unknown date
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- Groups: Contemporary Japanese Artists
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Education
1987 - 1991
D.Phil: U. of Oxford: Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics:
United Kingdom
1981 - 1983
MA (RCA) Royal College of Art:
United Kingdom
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Solo Expositions
2017
Wilf Tilley: Artist & Neuroscientist:
Tokyo,
Japan
2003
The Neuromytheologian And Other Works:
Kobe,
Japan
2001
Founder & Designer, Brainbox Exploratorium, Japan Brain Science Institute:
Wako-shi,
Japan
1999
Nine International Monetary Fun Devices & Other Works:
Tokyo,
Japan
1998
Dirac's Equation & Other Works:
Karuizawa,
Japan
1997
Works Of Art, Science & Magic From Dr. Athanasius Miller's Cabinet Of Curiosities:
Tokyo,
Japan
1997
Wilf Tilley, New Work:
Kobe,
Japan
1996
Works On Paper Including Historical, Teratological Studies:
Kobe,
Japan
1977
First Solo Exhibition:
London,
United Kingdom
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Added Sep 19, 2023
New Light Prize Exhibition
UK
Saturday
30
September
2023
Saturday
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December
2024
New Light Prize Exhibition touring five locations in the UK including London. The portrait, "Manami 2023", shown on this website is part of the exhibition.
Added Oct 28, 2020
New Light Prize Exhibition Review
https://lancashiretimes.co.uk/article/New-Light-Prize-Exhibition---Wilf-Tilley-Satomi-2020
Added Aug 24, 2020
New Light Prize Exhibition
Scarborough, Tullie House, Biscuit Factory & Bankside Galleries
Saturday
19
September
2020
Wednesday
24
November
2021
The portrait painting listed on this site, Satomi 2020 #1, will be part of this exhibition touring four galleries in the UK, and finishing at the Bankside Gallery in London in late November 2021.
Reviews and comments
Thanks for your message. Best wishes, Wilf
Thanks for the great work about my countryman. Greetings from the city of Bruno Schulz from Drohobych (Дрогобич).
Sensitivity and refined artist, optimal comucation and artistic vision++++++
n'est-ce pas Tarkovski, cet immense cinéaste ?
Malheureusement nous sommes nombreux à avoir des chefs d'état monstrueux...
こんにちは、ウィルフ。ルネサンスのMar爵とマルケサスの作品、静物、肖像画、すべての作品が大好きです。 これらは見事に洗練されており、古典的な作品をおめでとうございます。 必要に応じて、Art-majorの私のサイトにアクセスできます。日本へのオマージュ、Saの先祖、そして日本で最も有名な剣の先祖を見つけることができます。 詩的な考え。 サム・ド・ボーリガード。。
Bonsoir Wilf, j' adore tes oeuvres tes Marquis et Marquises, de la Renaissance ,ta nature morte, tes portraits, toutes tes créations. qui sont peaufinées magistralement,et je te félicite pour tes créations classiques. Si tu veux bien , tu peux aller visiter mon site sur Art-majeur, tu y trouveras un Hommage au Japon,ancestral sur les Samouraïs et sur le sabre, le plus prestigieux du Japon : Le HONJO MASAMUNE; Pensées Poétiques . Sam de Beauregard.
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Une huileuse toile sublime qui met en lumière la divinité du créateur que vous êtes , Bravo l'Artiste pour cette magnifique réalisation !
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