Pax Mona Lisa

Jon Carapiet

Distributed by Rim Books

30 pages, colour, 14 x 14 cm, soft cover

ISBN 978-0-473-71895-4

RRP - $15

Book Launch: Saturday, 3 August, 2024 - 1.00- 3.00 pm

47 Cromwell Street, Mt. Eden, Auckland

This book tells the story behind Pax Mona Lisa, a unique photograph created using AI re-animation.

Pax Mona Lisa is not ‘promptography’ but a captured moment in time.

Text and images are combined to describe the context, emergence and intention for Pax Mona Lisa.

The book forms an analogue record of a particular time in 2024 when the benefits and potential threat from AI are in the headlines and global tensions are rising from Gaza to Ukraine and Sudan.

Contrasting the myriad of AI-generated images online, the book explores the hope of Pax Mona Lisa to be an a-historical meme of transcendence as an antidote to a world in turmoil.