John Wong's 'Museum of Prompt' Explores AI as Visual Research

John Wong's series 'Museum of Prompt' rethinks AI-generated imagery by treating prompting as a new context for contemporary image-making. Rather than using AI for rapid production, Wong engages the machine in dialogue, embracing glitches, errors, and instability as expressive material. His portraits oscillate between legibility and dissolution, with faces traversed by sweeps, tears, veils, and chromatic vibrations. The project draws a conceptual parallel to Gerhard Richter's blurred photo-paintings, transposed into a postdigital algorithmic environment where blur becomes glitch and loss becomes interpretive error. Wong deliberately slows down the prompting process, micro-editing and building custom tools to manipulate images, resisting speed as a value. Color plays a central role: electric reds, pinks, yellows, cold blues, and veiled greens create emotional climates ranging from pop intensity to spectral near-disappearance. A cinematic affinity with Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' is noted for its dreamlike textures and hypnotic emotional atmosphere. The series is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument', alongside augmented reality and voice narrative. The text was reviewed using AI tools.