🃏 Recipe Card

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📌 Title — Catchy, descriptive name

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Image Forgery: Archival Mimesis with AI

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📌 One-liner — One sentence: what you do and why it matters

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Generate AI images that mimic historical photographs — and confront the thin line between archive and fabrication in an age of synthetic memory.

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📌 Credits — Contributor name + link

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Recipe by Artefacto - a Barcelona-based center for research, production, and innovation in film and technology, driven by Anna Giralt Gris and Jorge Caballero.

🧂 At a Glance
Difficulty Beginner
Group size Solo / Pairs / Group
Time 30 mins – 2 hours
AI tools Image AI (text-to-image, facilitator's choice)
Tags #documentary #ethics #archives #authenticity #syntheticmemory

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📦 What you'll make — Two outputs, one or both depending on your session

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  1. A recreation of an existing photograph — including the prompt used and reflections on what worked, what didn't, and why
  2. A small synthetic archive of 2–3 invented images — including prompts, what you knew vs. assumed vs. invented, key observations, and a group discussion on synthetic media and its implications

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⏱️ Suggested timing — Allow roughly equal time for each phase

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For 60 mins: ~20 mins per phase. For 30 mins: focus on Phase 1 + 2 only. For 2 hours: go deeper into documentation and group sharing.

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🛒 Ingredients — Everything needed: tools, links, materials, access

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