PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Papadopoulos, Despina
TI  - The Oracle of Delphi: Towards an Affective Promptology
DP  - 2025 Jul 15
TA  - ArteActa
VI  - 8
IP  - 1
IS  - 25711695
AB  - Through a series of photographic assemblages that focus on texture, depth, and atmosphere, "The Oracle of Delphi" documents interactions between these assemblages and AI language models. The work demonstrates specific ways that current AI systems struggle to comprehend material qualities and contextual relationships in personal narratives, particularly when dealing with dimensionality, surface qualities, and emotional resonance. By analyzing these limitations, the work reveals the gap between human and machine perception of materiality and affect, while suggesting potential approaches for developing more nuanced human-machine encounters. Through these material encounters and a deliberate "kinking" of established patterns, the work demonstrates how algorithmic systems might be recrafted from processes of reduction into expansive sites of co-creation and possibility.