KARYN EASTON
Nov 17
by Karyn in Ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Conclusion, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Graffiti, Ideas, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Research Paper, Research Paper Journey, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Conclusion, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Graffiti, Ideas, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Research Paper, Research Paper Journey, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Love Letters From AI

Hidden Art – When I first began my MA, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do. Ultimately I knew it would be something to do with the hidden or the unseen. Initially I began looking at invisible phenomena such as sound waves and the passage of time.  However, nothing captured my interest quite as much as augmented reality.  It was this whole concept of a hidden unseen world (only accessible to those ‘in the know’), that intrigued me. While conducting research for my Research Paper I discovered that there is a distinct negative bias towards AI generated art. I looked at a number of strategies to help mitigate this bias.  Finally, after a number of image polls, used to inform my project, I created a fictitious robot called Athena.  Her name was inspired by the old Athena posters from the past.  My research was suggesting that humanoid robots with a sad ‘backstory’ could help to reduce bias and win over an audience when presenting AI art. At this point I began to develop a narrative for my robot.  During a visit to Barcelona, I was completely amazed by the sheer weight of graffiti adorning the city walls.  I […]
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Nov 05
by Karyn in Ai, Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Thoughts and Background

Research Paper 3 – Thoughts, Background and Final Version That’s it – no more!  Yesterday and today became the ‘final straw’ with my research paper!  Why? Because yesterday my ‘dying’ on its ‘last legs’ MacBook Pro decided that it was going to literally lose all of my research papers and drafts.  I know it’s somewhat unbelievable but this actually happened! Months of hard work seemed to have disappeared in front of my eyes.  The files were no longer there!  I tried opening programs that I had used to construct the last version of my paper, but it was always the same message ‘File cannot be found’. I even convinced my self that there was some evil hacker trying to sabotage my work, that’s how upset I was.  At one point I even thought I must be having a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. As I had been editing the document in Adobe’s PDF editing program I thought to myself, ‘Ha’ there will be a copy stored in Adobe’s creative cloud.  So, feeling somewhat smug, I looked at my recent documents there, only to discover that on opening my research paper it gave an error message saying ‘bad […]
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Apr 28
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Research Paper Journey #3

Back to the Drawing Board – Unfortunately, after spending some time  brainstorming, then querying ChatGPT3, I was still no further forward in developing a research question.  At this point I felt that I needed to take a step away from it for a while and maybe create something instead.  I had wanted to develop my Zentangle paper sculptures further so I felt this was the perfect opportunity to set aside my research paper and move back to experimentation. It was during this period of time that I started to reflect on my study statement and exactly what it was that really interested me.  Since starting my MA in Fine Art Digital I have always had an interest in how artists can harness the power of Ai instead of being replaced by it.  Therefore, I decided to revisit my original study statement where I had initially proposed research into a new form of human, digital and Ai hybrid art. Reflecting on my study statement quite quickly led on to a number of questions about what I had previously proposed.  For example: Do people actually like Ai art? Do people like Digital Art? Do people like Digital Art more than Ai art? […]
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Apr 22
by Karyn in Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, Research Paper Journey, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, Research Paper Journey, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Journey #1

Crafting a Research Question – I think possibly one of the hardest aspects of formulating a research paper is to come up with a simple yet powerful question.  What that might look like at this stage, I’m not entirely sure.  Therefore I think that the most sensible approach for me is to write down all of my ideas.  I have a number of potential ideas pertaining to ‘Information Overload’ including: subliminal messaging, overlooked information, hidden information, coded information, changed information, missing information and the list goes on… During a couple of our zoom sessions we tried out continuous writing and I wondered if that would actually help me with my process of defining what it is I actually want to do?  Below is a short time-lapse video of me continuously free writing for around five minutes.   Free Writing Exercise My ‘Time of the Signs’ project really did enlighten me about the sheer volume of environmental information that we are all subjected to on a daily basis.  This led me to query whether or not this may be having a detrimental effect on humans?  It may well turn out that it has no effect at all except leaving a ‘messy’ […]
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