AI generated art crazy life
Walking into the AI Minilab at the recently concluded Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa, I had hints that I was eager to ask ChatGPIT. First: Creating a piece of art from your imagination for the chatbot. Very convincingly the AI replied that it had no imagination of its own.
It is based, it told me, “on pattern recognition, learned relationships and algorithms… and although AI may be able to produce results that surprise, inspire or resonate, the processes will always be based on human intelligence”.
When nervousness turned into fun
Matthew Vothke, founder of Somewhere Global, a Stockholm-based creative agency that focuses on culture and uses AI-generated art, laid out the minilab as a simple set-up – six iPads equipped with ChatGPIT. The role of access clearly came to the fore. Visitors can engage in an interactive dialogue with the chatbot and share ideas which it transforms into vivid visuals. From ‘hi-tech Goa with flying cars in 3025’ to ‘pink horses’.
Matthew Vothke
Vothke found that while many people came in with some trepidation, they soon enjoyed drawing, with the youth often showing the elders how to use it. But he laughingly tells me there was no art at all. “There is a very interesting fine line of what is art and what is not. AI gives everyone the tools to do it, but that doesn’t mean everyone can do it.”
This reminds Refik Anadol, who plans to open the world’s first AI art museum, Dataland, in Los Angeles next year. New media artists, whose interactive digital canvases display creations made from vast datasets – ranging from weather conditions to real-time data of the Amazon rainforest – emphasize that it is important for artists to create their own AI tools , so that they can co-create. With the machine.
In Serendipity, the last room of the installation, this paradox was highlighted, juxtaposing AI-generated visuals of novices with works created by experienced artists. The differences manifest themselves in intent, message, and emotional resonance. “It’s the point of view, the storytelling [and technique] “It separates art from mere production,” explains Vothke.
AI Minilab at Serendipity Arts Festival
Disruptive, but not the enemy
AI-enhanced technologies and solutions are currently more widely available across industries. Additionally, this AI is also raising concerns. In art, news like Marvel and Disney deciding to use AI-generated animated intros for shows secret attack It’s just one of many examples that have struck fear among creatives since earlier this year.
Vothke accepts this and believes that we could be just a few years away from AI taking over the entire entertainment industry. “A few years from now, you can ask AI to create an entire movie according to your mood. For example, a thriller noir about a Swedish artist who comes to India for the first time and his existential journey,” he says with humorous self-awareness. But this does not mean that human creativity will become irrelevant. Getting training and a deeper understanding of the tools available will help cut down the competition.
Visitors to AI Minilab
Of course, ethical questions arise when the AI elements used in the creation of a work are not disclosed. This was not the case when I left the lab and stepped into another room in the program, saturated with morphing pastel-colored images – from dream-like sea creatures to fluid, pulsating microscopic images of water – in high definition on four walls. Projected. Set to psychotomimetic music, crazy life There was a live performance using AI art. Seven visual artists created generic AI creatures in real time and also performed live sketches on TouchDesigner with additional AI integration.
crazy life There was a live performance using AI art
The exhibit was not only a celebration of art and technology, but also an exploration of the blurred boundaries between natural and synthetic, human and machine. This gives me hope that AI doesn’t need to be feared as the monster in the room, at least for now.
The writer and sound artist are based in Goa.
published – December 26, 2024 02:50 PM IST
