# The New Aesthetic (ニュー・エステティック) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.563 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/new-aesthetic
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of The New Aesthetic, a aesthetic from Digital Culture, 2011–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: critically visualizing AI, surveillance and mapping, or showing where human and machine perception diverge. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Pixels enlarged onto physical objects
- Recognition rectangles and coordinates
- Satellite, map and surveillance viewpoints
- Compression, omission and machine misclassification

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Overlay detection boxes, tracks and map tiles to expose the machine's field of judgment
- Type and lettering: Set coordinates, labels and confidence scores on a separate layer from human explanation
- Material and surface: Leave low resolution, compression and sensor output visibly unresolved
- Colour: #E8E8E8 carries the ground, #00FF66 is the colour the style is remembered by, #111111 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: futurity, technique, rebellion

## What goes wrong

Pixels and detection boxes used only as futuristic decoration erase the politics of who classifies whom.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/new-aesthetic/design.md