AItist ON THE RISE
2023
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3D Art, Generative Art
"Artist ON THE RISE" is a digital art fable that anticipates the future of art in the face of robust artificial intelligence. Through in-depth research based on post-phenomenology and extensive conversations with AI, I crafted an audio-visual experience within the virtual society. This involved LiDAR scanning augmented by generative modeling and coding, serving as an analogy to the multistability, symbiosis, and auto-generation relationship between human artists and machine learning technology.
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The term "AItist" combines artificial intelligence and artist. I envision a future where a community of creators, known as AItists, open-source AI art generation tools and develops a virtual society into an AI art museum. By considering the principles of artificial intelligence and our subjectivity during the creative process, my aim is to encourage artists to establish creative relationships with machine learning tools rather than opposing them, as portrayed by the media.
RGB is the most commonly used colour space for digital image processing, and through the red, green, and blue colour channels, we see the virtual world through computer algorithms. I applied this image matrix algorithm to both the audio and visual parts of the work. I made forms of material captured directly from the red, green, and blue colors with different Alpha values. I used MAX/MSP/Jitter programming to translate the RGB channel values of rendered film into MIDI for 3 different synthesizers.
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Stage 1: Invitation
AItists all over the world are welcomed to the hub by registering their machine learning avatar through their IP address.
Stage 2: Processing into the AItist Hub
A parallel channel will then appear on the avatar, which introduces the machine learning generating process of artwork based on generative models. AItists could progress the avatar to the diffusion tree at the end of the channel to enter the final stage: AItist Hub.
Stage 3: Immersive Art Museum
The avatar will eventually be launched on the AItist Hub, which is a stage for programming practices that serves as a bridge to hardware infrastructure. On stage are floating monuments from art history and the greatest artists of all time, dominated by the illusion of AI-generated art representations. As a result of joining this project, your artwork will soon be incorporated into the magnificent illusion.
