# Conceptual Art × Guerrilla Television — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=conceptual-art+guerrilla-television
# Conceptual Art carries the structure and Guerrilla Television appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Conceptual Art (style, mid-1960s–1970s) and their accent from Guerrilla Television (style, late 1960s–1980s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Conceptual Art exists for: exhibitions or research presentations that show procedure and definition instead of a finished object, or participatory projects where published rules let other people carry out the work. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Conceptual Art

- Words and definitions
- Instructions and rules
- Documentary photographs
- Dematerialization

Composition: Set work beside statement and order everything by the record, not by drama. Type and lettering: Plain office grade type presenting the definition exactly as written.

## Accent comes from Guerrilla Television, used sparingly

- Low-resolution portable video, trails, clipping, and dropouts
- Long handheld records embedded in events
- Handwritten cards, coarse electronic type, and direct time or place labels
- Split screens, feedback, and reshooting that dismantle broadcast images

Let one material quality come from it: Retain portable-video resolution, location sound, and tape loss instead of applying one uniform malfunction filter.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #efede7, carry the structure in #898986 and #1d1d1c, and let a single accent come from #D5533F. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, trust, calm, intimacy, technique.

## What goes wrong

- Conceptual Art: Styling the surface to look administrative without a rule or question anyone can test leaves only curt graphic design. Change what counts as the work, including structure, site and the relation to the audience.
- Guerrilla Television: VHS noise alone does not create counter-media. Name the makers, community, circulation, and consent, and do not imitate real stations or emergency broadcasts.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/conceptual-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/guerrilla-television/design.md