TECH-BRO VOMIT IN HD (18 Punks vs. ChatGPT & VEO3)
AI-generated video (VEO3), AI-generated text (ChatGPT), 02:03 min, 2025
A full-frontal attack on prompt culture, on curated aesthetics, on the sickly sweet optimism of tech bros selling creativity like it’s deodorant. A riot with subtitles, it spits truth like a busted amp at 3 AM - deliberately raw, gloriously off. There’s no attempt to be liked. It’s alive. Punk didn’t die—it just found a new enemy. It takes aim at AI’s sterile “creativity,” where chaos is erased and vision is focus-grouped. It’s punk as performance - all noise, nerve, and no permission. This is art the algorithm can’t replicate—and will never understand.
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Boris EldagsenDirector
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Boris EldagsenWriter
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Boris EldagsenProducer
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
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Runtime:1 minute 54 seconds
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Completion Date:June 7, 2025
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Production Budget:100 USD
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Country of Origin:Germany
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Country of Filming:Germany
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:AI video
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Berlin-based German artist Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad, India. In addition, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz.
Since 2000 his photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Edinburgh Art Festival, FORMAT Festival Derby, Noorderlicht Groningen, Chobi Mela Dhaka, Singapore International Photography Festival, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Boris has been awarded at ‘Voies Off’ Arles and ‘FORMAT’ Festival Derby.
Since 2004, Boris has lectured at Victorian College of the Arts / University Melbourne, Photography Studies College Melbourne, Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz and Hochschule Furtwangen and Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.
In addition, he has given workshops and presentations for over 30 universities and art schools worldwide.
He is an active member of the two oldest German photographer’s associations, DFA and DGPh. He is also a founding member of the AI working group of Deutscher Fotorat (“German Photo Council”), Germany’s umbrella organisation for over 30 photographer’s associations and institutions).
Boris is one of the internationally acclaimed experts on AI-generated images and a regular guest at panel talks and events. His refusal of the Sony World Photo Awards in April 2023 kicked-off a global debate about the relationship between photography and AI-generated images (“promptography”). He was "The man who lifted the lid on Pandora’s box" (The Age) and his image “PSEUDOMNESIA | The Electrician” became “The picture that stopped the world” (The Guardian) and a symbol for a new aera.
Since 2023 his AI-generated work was shown by international galleries such as Ravestijn Gallery Amsterdam, SETAREH Gallery Berlin, Marion Gallery Panama, Palmer Gallery London, Hangar 7826 Montréal, Expanded-Art Berlin and in museums such as California Museum of Photography and BACC Bangkok.
It was also featured by photo and media art festivals such as Noorderlicht Groningen, AI Biennale Essen, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Jupiter Art Museum Shenzhen, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, International Photography and Media Art Festival Kaunas, PHOTO 2024 Melbourne, ELEKTRA International Digital Art Biennial in Montréal.
He recently was a jury member for the Ars Electronica Award in Linz.
This July he will participate in the “PROMPTOPIA: document.ai” at the Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai. September 2025 he will curate the group show “PSYCHOPOMP! AI images as an expression of the unconscious mind” for the inauguration of the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography in Johannesburg / South Africa.
Boris lives and works in Berlin.
www.eldagsen.com
As an artist, I investigate the unconscious mind.
THE MIND IS A CURIOUS THING.
Despite over 200 years of psychology, the unconscious remains as vague and powerful as the gods it emancipated itself from. As a reservoir of our past experiences, it stores urges and feelings that we rationally have no access to. However, some images can open these doors, trigger emotions and unlock memories.
Using archetypes and symbolic acts, my work speaks the language of the unconscious and communicates on a dreamlike level. My psychological and poetic approach transports the viewer between the sublime and the uncanny – where the attributes of photography, painting, theatre and film unite.
FROM PHOTOGRAPHY TO PROMPTOGRAPHY
From 1989 to 2022, photography was the basis of my artistic work. Since 2022, this focus has been on promptography (AI-generated images).
I am not trying to copy my previously developed visual language, but to explore new avenues that were not possible for me as a photographic artist. With the help of AI, I can draw freely on my imagination and incorporate my experience as an artist into the prompt. AI image generators are the tool I have been waiting for without knowing it.
For me, the diffusion models have replaced the camera - but my artistic focus on the collective unconscious and my psychological approach have remained. Since the training material of the AIs is a mirror of humanity, I can now work with the "collective unconscious" (C.G. Jung) to depict it.
