As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트 by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트 by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award 동상 in 제너레이티브, 알고리즘, 파라메트릭 및 AI 보조 디자인 Competition Category.

동제너레이티브· 2026

As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 제너레이티브 Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트

이 제너러티브 아트 시리즈는 AI를 활용한 이미지 제작을 통해 일상적인 어린 시절의 순간들을 묘사합니다. 이 작업은 중국 북부 지역에서의 실제 경험을 바탕으로 학교 쉬는 시간, 집에서 보내는 조용한 여름 오후, 새해맞이 축제와 같은 장면들에 초점을 맞춥니다. 안내된 프롬프팅과 수작업 시각 편집을 통해 제작된 이 시리즈는 사실성을 우선시하면서도, 기억이 정확한 세부 사항보다 감정을 보존하는 방식을 반영하는 미묘한 시각적 불규칙성을 허용합니다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 동상

As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. As I Remember Them 제너러티브 아트, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: As I Remember Them is a generative art series that visualizes fragments of memory, emotion, and longing. It is an attempt to reconstruct the past through the lens of imagination.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1856 x 2464px image series
Tags: Generative AI art, Nostalgia, Childhood memories, Northern China, Visual storytelling, MidJourney, Photoshop, Digital art
Production Technology: This series was created with MidJourney, using iterative prompting and reference-based descriptions to shape culturally specific scenes. Outputs were then refined in Photoshop through compositing, retouching, and color adjustments, ensuring the final work aligned with my artistic vision and emotional intent.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was translating personal, culturally specific memories into AI-generated images. MidJourney lacked context for the textures of Northern Chinese life, requiring me to break scenes into elements, source references, and iteratively refine prompts. Balancing realism with the quirks of AI output, and deciding when to embrace its distortions, was both the obstacle and the creative breakthrough.
Research: Process documentation: https://bit.ly/49OvkvG

Type of Research: Practice-based creative research.
Research Objectives: To explore how AI can represent personal and culturally specific memories.
Methodology: Iterative visual experimentation and technical study.
Data Collection and Tools: Memory recall, curated reference images, MidJourney style parameters, prompting techniques, Photoshop.
Participants or Experiments: Repeated prompt and image generation cycles.
Results: Increased control over style, detail, and emotional accuracy.
Insights and Impacts: Structured prompting reduces emotional flatness in AI art.
Real Life Effects: Encourages more human-centered AI use in design and visual storytelling.
Inspiration: Bothered by how often GenAI outputs felt soulless, the project set out to render a deeply soulful subject, the emotional landscape of childhood.

I grew up in Northern China, in a hometown changed by time and distance. Through prompting, storytelling, and hands-on editing, I recreated scenes that linger in me: recess, summer solitude, New Year warmth, while embracing GenAI quirks that reflect how memory distorts and softens.
Project Duration: The project was created virtually over the span of one month in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The generative art is experienced through sequential viewing. Each image presents a self-contained moment, allowing viewers to pause, observe, and form personal associations. The series encourages slow viewing rather than interaction through controls, inviting audiences to connect individual scenes to their own memories and emotional experiences.