Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023

Artificial Appetites confronts global food systems and consumer culture’s contribution to the climate emergency.

 

The works use GenAI to generate consumer facing point of sale advertising, distorted through the influence of climate breakdown.

 

Simmons considers that the image generation process ‘takes everything to generate a nothing’, with results verging on generic cliche albeit unique in the culmination of their machine learning journey.

Timothy Simmons, Artificial Appetites (Installation view), 2023
Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Timothy Simmons, Artificial Appetites (Installation view), 2023

Meateorologist resigns after death threats over climate crisis coverage

2023

Ai generated Eco-Solvent Prints on Vinyl

Diptych, each 130×175cm

Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Installation view: Meateorologist resigns after death threats over climate crisis coverage, 2023
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Timothy Simmons, Meateorologist resigns after death threats over climate crisis coverage, 2023
Timothy Simmons, Meateorologist resigns after death threats over climate crisis coverage, 2023

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Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.

The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change

2023

Ai generated C-Type prints, Double Glazed Panel, UPVC Window Frame

52×67cm

Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.
The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change, 2023
Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.

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Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.

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Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Timothy Simmons, 'The Prime Minister has a Ten Point Plan to eradicate climate change', from Artificial Appetites, 2023.

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Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Timothy Simmons, 'Buy 1 get 1.5c free', from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.

Buy 1 get 1.5C free

2023

Ai generated C-Type prints, Double Glazed Panel, UPVC Window Frame

50×66cm

Timothy Simmons, 'Buy 1 get 1.5c free', from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Buy 1 get 1.5c free, 2023
Timothy Simmons, Buy 1 get 1.5c free (detail), from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Timothy Simmons, Buy 1 get 1.5c free (detail), from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.

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Timothy Simmons, Buy 1 get 1.5c free (detail), from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.
Timothy Simmons, Buy 1 get 1.5c free (detail), from the series Artificial Appetites, 2023.

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Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Timothy Simmons, 2030 will be such a great year, 2050 even better (R), Broken Systems in the Artificial Field (L), 2023
(Left) Broken Systems in the Artificial Field, 2023
(Right) 2030 will be such a great year, 2050 even better, 2023

Broken Systems in the Artificial Field

2023

Ai generated C-Type prints, Double Glazed Panel, UPVC Window Frame

41×56cm

2030 will be such a great year, 2050 even better

2023

Ai generated C-Type prints, Double Glazed Panel, UPVC Window Frame

61×71cm

Timothy Simmons, 2030 will be such a great year, 2050 even better (L), Broken Systems in the Artificial Field (R), 2023
(Left) 2030 will be such a great year, 2050 even better, 2023
(Right) Broken Systems in the Artificial Field, 2023
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Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
Artificial Appetites (installation view), 2023
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