As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award برونز انعام in جنريٽو، الگورٿمڪ، پيراميٽرڪ ۽ AI-مددگار ڊيزائن Competition Category.

برونزجنريٽو· 2026

As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

A' Design Award برونز انعام Winner in جنريٽو Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ

هي جنريٽو آرٽ سيريز AI جي مدد سان تصوير سازي ذريعي ٻالپڻ جي روزمرهه لمحن کي پيش ڪري ٿي. هي ڪم اسڪول جي وقفي، گهر ۾ گرمين جي خاموش منجهند، ۽ نئين سال جي جشن جهڙن منظرن تي ڌيان مرکوز ڪري ٿو، جيڪي اتر چين ۾ گذاريل تجربي مان ورتل آهن. رهنمائي وارن پرامپٽس ۽ هٿ سان بصري ايڊيٽنگ ذريعي تخليق ڪيل، هي سيريز حقيقت پسندي کي ترجيح ڏئي ٿي جڏهن ته اهڙين سُست بصري بي ضابطگين کي اجازت ڏئي ٿي جيڪي ظاهر ڪن ٿيون ته يادگيري بلڪل صحيح تفصيل جي بدران احساس کي محفوظ رکي ٿي.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award برونز انعام

As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ A' Design Award برونز انعام جو کٽيندڙ آهي، تمام گهڻو معزز اعتراف جيڪو تخليقيت، اختراع ۽ ذڪاوت سان ممتاز بهترين ڊيزائنن کي ڏنو وڃي ٿو. برونز جا کٽيندڙ ڀرپور مهارت واريون ۽ نمايان طور تخليقي شاهڪار آهن، جيڪي پنهنجي ڊيزائنرن جي وسيع تجربي، تخيل ۽ ڏاهپ جي تصديق ڪن ٿيون. As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ کان اميد ڪئي وڃي ٿي ته اهو هڪ تمام گهڻو قدر ڪيل، ساراهيل ۽ پيارو شيءِ هوندو، قابل ذڪر حد تائين پيشه ورانه ۽ جدت وارو. هي ڊيزائن جنهن A' Design Award برونز انعام کٽيو آهي، فن، سائنس، ڊيزائن ۽ ٽيڪنالاجي ۾ بهترين طريقا شامل ڪري ٿو ۽ ننڍين تفصيلن ڏانهن ڌيان ڏيڻ ڪري شاندار آهي. As I Remember Them جنريٽو آرٽ ضرورتون خوبصورتيءَ سان پوريون ڪري ٿو، خواهشن کي ڇهي ٿو، جذبن کي موهي ٿو ۽ تجسس ڇڪي ٿو.

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.