Dave Mckean – Prompt

Hourglass 2023 ISBN 9781739328801 Acqn 33300

Pb 22x30cm 112pp col ills £18

The new paperback edition of McKean's 'Prompt', expanded to 112 pages, with an afterword and
new final short story on the strange and culturally hot topic of AI generated imagery. A couple of
days after reading about and digesting the implications of AI image creation, Dave McKean
decided he could either retire or respond. This is McKean's response, a 96-page book of short
graphic stories exploring and conversing with AI.

"GILGAMESH TABLET V returns Andrew George's translation of humanity's oldest text, back to a
purely visual language to see if the narrative survives this remote exchange across 4000 years.
THIS MIDIS THE WORLD JOURNEY asks how AI sees us through one news headline per day
for a month. WALKING ALONG THE EDGE OF THE CEREBROSPINAL SEA is my final chat
with the bot during a morning walk around Rye Harbour, where I try and get it to answer some
impossible questions, while starting to feel the algorithms rifling through my brain.

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