September 2025 issue: Synthetic Imagination

In our September 2025 issue, Artimnas explores the electric edge of creativity with Synthetic Imagination—a deep dive into AI-generated art, machine-made aesthetics, and the evolving dance between human intuition and algorithmic output. From text-to-image artists to neural network sculptors, this issue celebrates collaboration between people and machines—where ideas become data, and data becomes vision.

This is not a future-forward fantasy. It’s already here—and it’s transforming how we define authorship, beauty, and creativity itself.

Synthetic imagination refers to the creative landscapes co-designed by humans and machines. It includes AI-generated visuals, text, audio, and interactive experiences—built through prompts, models, datasets, and feedback loops. But more than just output, it’s about the relationships we form with these systems: where tools become collaborators, and the line between creator and code begins to blur.

In this issue, we explore:

• Artists using AI as brush, chisel, or co-creator

• Designers crafting prompts and visual language through code

• Human-machine feedback loops and evolving authorship models

• The aesthetics of imperfection, surrealism, and hyperrealism born from AI

• Ethical questions of originality, bias, and dataset transparency

• The emotional complexity of collaborating with synthetic intelligence

Synthetic imagination isn’t just a trend—it’s a shift in how we create, think, and even feel. As AI becomes a co-author in our artistic journeys, we’re being asked to reconsider what creativity actually means. When a machine completes your vision or sparks an idea you hadn’t considered, is that collaboration or coincidence? When anyone can generate thousands of images in minutes, what becomes more valuable—speed or sensibility? Output or insight?

This issue matters because it captures a defining moment. A moment when algorithms are no longer backstage tools but creative voices in the room. It invites us to think critically and playfully about authorship, aesthetics, originality, and ethics. We’re not just producing more—we’re producing differently. And in that difference lies potential, confusion, controversy, and beauty.

Artimnas: Synthetic Imagination is here to document that complexity. To showcase the people who aren’t afraid to create with, question, and even challenge the systems shaping our visual future. Because this isn’t just about machines—it’s about what we, as humans, choose to do with them.

This issue is for AI artists, prompt engineers, researchers, and explorers who use generative systems as their primary medium. If you’re experimenting with tools like Midjourney, DALL·E, Runway, Stable Diffusion, or custom-trained models—we want your voice.

It’s also for visual artists, writers, musicians, and designers who are incorporating AI into their process—not to replace creativity, but to expand it. If you’re curious about the machine’s imagination and your own, this issue is for you.

We also welcome critical perspectives—thinkers, ethicists, coders, or curators who question, analyze, and map the cultural, social, and emotional dimensions of synthetic creativity. Your lens helps shape the narrative around what these technologies really mean.

We’re curating a global range of voices for Synthetic Imagination—those who are not just using AI, but shaping its meaning in the creative world. Whether your work results in still images, interactive pieces, videos, code-based installations, or philosophical frameworks—we want to showcase your practice.

Each contributor will receive a bespoke editorial questionnaire, designed specifically around your workflow, aesthetic lens, and conceptual focus. We want to explore your relationship with the tools: the surprises, the control (or lack of it), the intentions behind your choices, and the outcomes you’ve come to embrace.

We also ask for visual documentation—process images, screenshots, rendered outputs, experiments, and visual cues that help us understand the bridge between you and the machine.

We’re looking for work that’s provocative, personal, playful, or philosophical. If your creativity explores the blurred boundary between artificial and authentic, human and generated—you belong in this issue.