Republicans in Love

Republicans in Love” is an AI text-to-image project produced during the month following the November 2022 United States Congressional election that explores the extent to which platforms such as DALL•E 2 can be used for satirical literary purposes. The project brings together elements of art history, politics, and social media discourse while also serving as a case study in the capabilities and limitations of the platform. “Republicans in Love” is a series of images based on one-line prompts that revisit historical incidents, ironies, and dangers of contemporary Trumpian populism. At the same time, the project traverses the history of European and American visual art through the manifestation of the styles of artists specified in the prompts. The project has resulted in an artist’s book and a set of playing cards