Michaela Konrad

Hi Fannie, thank you for your message. Midcentury hardboiled style sounds very good;-) Please tell me more about your project and schedules. Best wishes, Michaela

Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.

Great concepts!! 👍 ... Thank You for helping to make this world a better place!

I don't know weather you use generative aI in your campaigns or not. But anyway I would like to mention its huge resource and energy consumption. Unfortunatly this is widely ignored.
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

art by Michaela Konrad, Luftschacht Verlag, Austria, Vienna, Comic, lady, climate change, degrowth, circular economy, Michaela Konrad, Augmented reality, Artivive, Albertina modern, Virtual reality

I am proud and happy that the wonderful Luftschacht Verlag will publish my third comic-art-catalogue in october 2025.
EMBRACE THE FUTURE-OR BUSINESS AS USUAL.
This book can be experienced in augmented reality with the Artivive App.

artwork by Michaela Konrad, limited edition of screenprinting, bees, robot bee, robotic bee, drones, flowers, bee, biodiversity crisis, Austrian art, art from Vienna, austrian artist

Today is the international day of the bee. Remember that we depend on them, they do not depend on us. Hopefully my dystopian vision of robotic bees will never have to become true.

artwork by Michaela Konrad, painting, Acrylic painting on canvas, Insecta, Future Retro Ad, woman, cockroach, Comic Art, Future advertising, eating insects, eating worms, Augmented Reality, Artivive App, Austrian artist, artist from Vienna, Albertina collection

My painting INSECTA, which is an ironic "Future Retro Ad".
You can experience it in Augmented Reality: get the Artivive App and scan the image.

The Preliminary drawing for this painting is part of the collection of the Albertina museum in Vienna:
sammlungenonline.albertina.at?query=search...

artwork by Michaela Konrad, Offset Lithography, Austrian artist, robots, robot, AI Critique, the future of work, human made art, organic art, no AI generated art, robots building robots, Vienna based artist, Artivive App, augmented reality art, Albertina art collection, Albertina modern exhibition

HAPPY May 1st.
What will the future of work look like?

artwork by Michaela Konrad, Offset-Lithography, Can this be Tomorrow?, bear, surveillance Capitalism, 1984, George Orwell, Brave New World, Comic Cover Arte, Comic Art, Science Fiction, Retro-Futurism, Austrian Artist, Michaela Konrad, Austrian Artist, Art from Vienna, Albertina Modern, Artelier Contemporary Graz, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle

In my art project CAN THIS BE TOMORROW?, I created a series of fictional comic book covers in the style of the American Golden Age comics. Inspired by fantasists
like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or Phillip K. Dick, the artworks illustrate a bygone vision of
current events.

artwork by Michaela Konrad, screenprinting, woman, Me Travel?, 2 WW poster inspiration, circular economy, less consumption, degrowth, less transprt, vr, augmented reality, artivive app, save energy, rationing, rationing of energy and electronic devices

My art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE propagates a system change that aims for a circular economy. Economic growth, emissions and resource consumption have not yet been decoupled from each other. And the window of time we have left to avoid irreversible tipping points is getting smaller and smaller.

Artwork by Michaela Konrad, screenprinting, Albertina museum, Albertina modern, Vienna, Can this be Tomorrow?, The Future of the past, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Brave New World revisited, MAGA, no MAGA

"Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized."
Aldous Huxley, 1958

artwork by Michaela Konrad, pencil drawing, sheep, electric sheep, Do androids dream of electric sheep?, cyberpunk, blade runner, Peter Thiel, High tech - low life, big tech, billionaires

Sad but true: at the moment we are heading towards a future which we know from science fiction CYBERPUNK scenarios created by Phillip K. Dick and co. This means: High tech - low life. A handful billionaires rule over the empoverished crowd.
For Peter Thiel and friends this dystopia is an utopia.

IMPORTANT!

SUPER!

BRAVO!!!!

artwork by Michaela Konrad, screen printing, economic blackout, Can You do without it?, climate change, Green New Deal, New Deal, 2WW poster reinvented, less shopping means less emissions, shopping chart, boy, ypung boy, child, future

CAN YOU DO WITHOUT IT?

This is a limited edition screen print from my art project EMBRACE THE FUTURE.

It fits perfectly to today's economic blackout.
And: LESS SHOPPING MEANS LESS EMISSIONS!

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook or Twitter. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses and use cash. The purpose of today’s economic blackout is to send a clear message: We have the power.

#EconomicBlackout

Danke Ihnen!

Super!

And boycott: meta, X, Google (which is far more difficult), Open AI ....

artwork by Michaela Konrad, offset-handprint, Google Police, Private Public Partnership, Meta, democracy, USA, police officer, officer, policeman, augmented reality glasses, augmented reality, Artivive

What will happen to our democracy at a time when algorithms of largely unregulated companies such as X, Meta and Google, are getting to know us better and better? Who will pay for the damage to society? Governments are handing over more and more responsibilities to undemocratic private companies.

free speech and free artistic expression and no content moderation;-))) This is what they get!

Artwork by Michaela Konrad, pencil drawing, sketch, austrian artist, austrian art, pop art, comic, ban generative AI art, Fashion, Albertina modern, Vienna, creative process

I reject the use of AI systems that generate "art". On the one hand, because they disregard the rights of the authors of the works with which they were trained. On the other hand, I don't want the depth and complexity of my creative working process to be manipulated by the use of AI applications.

How Elon Musk used X to amplify Germany’s far right ahead of election Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in Germany was limited, data shows.

Sehr interessant: Wie die AfD und Alice Weidel auf X davon profitieren, dass Elon Musk ihnen so viel Aufmerksamkeit schenkt

Eine Analyse von @olivermmarsh.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social, die hier die @washingtonpost.com beschreibt

BRAVO!!!

Artwork by Michaela Konrad, pencil drawing, sketch, Vladimir Putin, matryoshka doll, man, arms race, multipolar international system, global order

We stand at the dawn of a new global order. A multipolar international system is emerging, and a new global arms race is on the horizon. However, for the financing of many of the great achievements of civilization, it is necessary to keep military expenditure as low as possible. Call it a dilemma.

Artwork by Michaela Konrad, Pictures of Tomorrow, house, The White House, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World, Dystopia,broligarchy, oligarchy, democracy, totalitarianism, corporate assault on democracy, Tech Bros, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg

I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.

Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.

Very cool!

Artwork by Michaela Konrad, Pictures of Tomorrow, house, The White House, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World, Dystopia,broligarchy, oligarchy, democracy, totalitarianism, corporate assault on democracy, Tech Bros, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg

I made this picture in 2020 for my dystopian art project PICTURES OF TOMORROW.

Here I'm combining it with an excerpt from Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958).
We must not forget that the current attack on democratic institutions all over the world did not come out of nowhere.

Ich bin bestürzt. Dieser Ansatz ist doch nicht einmal marxistisch, sondern sozialdemokratisch oder einfach nur vernünftig!