KARYN EASTON
Nov 04
by Karyn in Ai, Experimentation, Research 0 comments tags: ai, Experimentation, Research

Chladni Patterns and Ai

What does Ai think Chladni Patterns Look Like? – Over the course of the two years I would like to see if the Ai algorithm improves.  Time and it’s effects, just like sound and light absolutely fascinate me.  They are so interconnected, that it seems a shame not to keep a log of how Ai changes over time. At the moment I am looking at sound and vibrations, more specifically Chladni Plates and their resulting sand patterns from sound.  As an experiment I fed the text prompt ‘Chladni Patterns’ through the algorithm.   The images below are what the system ‘spat out’.  I think that it’s fairly clear that in this area Ai hasn’t quite caught up yet.  I intend to repeat this experiment towards the end of my course, along with any other relevant prompts that I discover along the way.  It will be interesting to see if the software has improved at all.   Ai Imagery Generated from the Text Prompt: ‘Chladni Patterns’  
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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 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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Oct 18
by Karyn in Ai, My Work, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, my work, opportunities, threats, Videos

Risk Taking

Where Ai Isn’t? – At the moment it feels as if the tentacles of Ai text to image are reaching further and further into our artistic lives. As artists this poses both opportunities and threats.  Opportunities come from the ease of image to text generation.  Threats arise from the ‘cheapening’ of images, as anyone can produce beautiful imagery at the touch of a button. The whole Ai text to image debate has certainly changed my approach to working.  I am now very mindful that anything I produce can be easily replicated with little or no creative input.  In order to combat this I began to think about scenarios where Ai text to image in the art world is not yet fully residing.  Some of these areas included:   Where human interaction is required to initiate a response. Where photography is used as a historical tool for accurately representing the past The documentation of time as in time lapse photography In art and craft based physical structures In the unseen or the hidden (if Ai can’t see it, how can it replicate it?).   The first area on the list was where human interaction was required to initiate a response.  I […]
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Oct 16
by Karyn in Ai, Introduction, My Work 0 comments tags: ai, Introduction, opportunities, threats

Art Without Meaning is Decoration!

Decoration – a Form of Meaningless Art? – In my last post titled ‘If I want Blue Bananas, I’ll have them’ I explored the ease of image generation using the new text to image tools from Midjourney, Dalle and Dalle 2.  Indeed it would be very easy for me as an artist to take my existing body of work and create myself a whole new portfolio based on it.  Below are some random examples of work generated using Dalle 2.  I took some existing images, uploaded them to the Ai software and it ‘spat out’ the following pieces of work.  However, the question in my mind is are the new images devalued by the use of Ai? Initially my work was an exploration of oil on water with light.  The concept was about whether or not beauty could be found by mixing substances that typically repelled each other.  I was fascinated by the way the oil lit up once light was added to it.  This, for me, was like a metaphor for society.  Anyone who is a fan of social media knows how savage it can sometimes be.  I’ve heard Twitter likened to one big long shouting match. Having tried […]
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Oct 14
by Karyn in Ai, Introduction 0 comments tags: ai, Introduction, my work

Blue Bananas

If I want blue bananas – I’ll have them! – Taking a more in-depth look at ai and text to image generation, I set myself a small challenge. There are one or two keen photographers that I follow on Facebook. They often post beautiful images of their travels. Therefore I wondered if only using their image descriptions I could replicate their imagery using only ai text to image generation. I found the results both intriguing and and frightening in equal measure. The slider below illustrates this. The images to the left of the slider were described by the photographer who shot them as: ‘Modern Dutch architecture reflecting in water during calm winds’. The image to the right of the slider was an ai generated image from the same description. I think the ai made a pretty good first attempt.         I found this idea quite fascinating.  Therefore, I proceeded to try replicating the work of other artists using only text prompts. Below I used the simple prompt: ‘Lighthouse with fireworks’.  The ai once again did a pretty good job on a first attempt although with further text refinements it would probably improve further.         […]
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Oct 14
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Introduction, My Work 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Introduction, my work, opportunities, threats

Art and Ai

Has Ai Killed Art? – Ai or Artificial Inteligence/Machine Learning has been around for a while now, but never has it’s presence been more keenly felt than in and around the Creative Arts. Producing imagery was once the domain of illustrators and graphic designs.  Now it appears that everyone with a computer/tablet/smartphone and a connection to Dalle and Midjourney can produce the most amazing images. At first as a photographer I didn’t feel particularly threatened by ai.  I suspected that what I was producing was safe for a while and that everyone would always need good photographers?  As a simple test I ran a text prompt through Midjourney  – a text to image ai generator. The results to me seemed less than impressive.  Below is an example of what I do and what ai thinks I do.  To generate the image below I used the text prompt “Oil on Water”.     I decided to give the ai a second attempt.  Although the result was better, it was still significantly different from the kind of imagery that I was producing.  Below is the second time I ran the prompt ‘oil on water’.     Fortunately or unfortunately depending upon a […]
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