KARYN EASTON
Sep 20
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Problem Solving, Research, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Problem Solving, Research, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Deeper Meaning

How to Find Meaning? – Having recently finished 21 days of an augmented reality investigation followed by another 21 days of research paper investigation and compilation, I’m feeling somewhat down.  I think that primarily it is due to my investigations into AI generated art.  The further I dig into this, the more depressed I become.  I’m sure this is just a transient phase.  Why am I so sad?  It’s because over the years I learnt so much about photography.  I collected a wealth of knowledge on this subject especially because each year I tried to present my students with increasingly technically challenging workshops.  I was proud that I was able to replicate pretty much any style of photography from slow shutter work to speed shooting, star trails to zoom burst, macro photography to physiograms. I felt I had reached the pinnacle when I managed to work out the technique that Michael Jackson (the photographer not the pop singer), uses to make his ethereal Luminograms.  Even today colleagues are badgering me to give up that secret which I flatly refuse.  It’s so beautifully simple yet complex at the same time and I nailed it! However, with the advent of AI art […]
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Nov 12
by Karyn in Experimentation, Ideas, My Work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Research, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: Experimentation, Ideas, my work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Research, threats, Timelapse, Videos

Chladni Patterns Revisited

Further Experimentation with the Chladni Kit – As I’m interested in hidden phenomena such as sound vibrations I wanted to shoot some footage showing how these could be visualised.  I purchased a Chladni kit, but I had missed some fundamental assembly instructions in the manual.  This was probably on of the main issues holding me back from making more sound patterns.  The creator of the kit on seeing my time-lapse videos kindly pointed this out to me and I made the necessary changes.   I believe that as a direct result of these changes I managed to make another pattern. While making the new pattern it was fascinating to watch the grains of sand as they vibrated up and down on the plate. I tried to capture this as best as I could, but unfortunately my light levels were too low.  The video piece I created is below.  Please note this is a very early experiment and I shall be re-shooting this with greatly increased light levels and a much higher frame rate.  The increased light levels will allow me to increase my depth of field so more grains of sand appear sharp and in focus.  The higher frame rate […]
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Oct 24
by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, My Work, Risk Taking, Threats, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, my work, Risk Taking, threats, Videos

Ai on the March

Saving Assets for Later – In the process of experimenting with Ai text to image, I generated a number of stills documented in my post Human Coding and Ai Generated Imagery for Animation.  Currently I am waiting for some ‘Chladni’ equipment arriving from Ireland.  Therefore, instead of wasting time, I decided to experiment with some of the small animations I made in that post.   Video 1. A combination of Clips The video below was a composite of all of the short clips I generated from my software tutorial. I like the fluid motion of the clips and the way they spread. I feel this could be a visual metaphor for the relentless spread of Ai into our lives.   Video 2. Ai from an Early Age The video below is an experiment moving on from video 1.  I added an iPad and a cake and candle.  This represents the march of Ai from an increasingly early age.   Video 3. Ai on the March This was my preferred video from the series of experiments.  It is a simple video short exploring the tentacle like spread of images across a screen.  The calming music to each video is there to […]
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Oct 23
by Karyn in Experimentation, My Learning, My Work, Research, Videos 0 comments tags: My Learning, my work, Research, threats, Videos

Generative Art Tutorial

Filling in Time – I was looking forward to putting together a video of of the work I was doing yesterday. Unfortunately the transfer of files from PC to MAC took longer than anticipated. Therefore, I decided to use this time productively to follow another Touch Designer software tutorial.  This one only took me around 3 hours to complete. However, the results were quite beautiful.  The imagery that is being produced has little or no bearing on my work.  The imagery is merely a byproduct of my software learning process.  My intention is to eventually use this software to produce my own generative art using my own images.  However for now I continue to run up the steep learning curve. the video below is the result of my learning journey from the latest tutorial that I followed.  As I have tweaked some of the parameters the imagery generated is all mine but I still need to work on my understanding of networks.  I’ve included a short video of my network for illustrative purposes.   Particles in Motion – Generative Art Using Touch Designer Software Here is the result from the tutorial.  I find the fluid motion of the particles quite […]
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Oct 21
by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, My Work, Risk Taking, Timelapse, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, my work, Risk Taking, threats, Timelapse, Videos

Human Coding and Ai Generated Imagery for Animation

A Steep Learning Curve – Since learning all about text to image Ai technology, I decided to explore it further.  Ai seems to be everywhere – if it were a living creature, I would liken it to one with tentacles – perhaps an octopus or a squid?  It might also be likened to a tree with branches sprawling everywhere and with increasing speed crawls further into our lives.  I suspect it will become ever more pervasive and how it is used, either for good or ill, will be down to us all.  Running with the idea that Ai has tentacles and or branches, I decided to try a text prompt to see what Ai made of the request.  I used ‘Tentacles, Branches, Network  and Fractals’ as my main prompt.  All of the images below were created from this text. I was pleased with the images above because I was looking for a good example image for a new visual programming tutorial I wanted to try.  The tutorial was about generating a growing image.  The tentacle-like images above seemed perfect for this, especially in relation to my thoughts about the tentacle nature of Ai. Below is the image that I chose […]
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