AI + Art = by Julia Morton

AI + Art = The Primordial Pond
Julia Morton Julia Morton

AI + Art = The Primordial Pond

The creative gates once closed to most of us are opening, and we now have the opportunity to learn from our collective wisdom. Will we?

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AI + Art = Strange Tools
Julia Morton Julia Morton

AI + Art = Strange Tools

"This is not what I expected!" That was the comment I heard most often when I asked gallery visitors what they thought of the AI and generative images featured in "Art in the Age of AI: Evolution or End?"

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AI + Art = Connections
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AI + Art = Connections

A large weight was taken off of my shoulders when I realized that the gatekeepers of the entertainment industry would no longer be able to hold me back. - M. Tolin

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AI + Art = Tech Myth
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AI + Art = Tech Myth

Mixing tribal gestures with organic symbols and visual ciphers, Jari Anttonen’s AI motifs filter through layers of meaning and distill into a kind of techno mythology.

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AI + Art = Art Therapy
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AI + Art = Art Therapy

"I'm not building a scene like a set director; I'm explaining a feeling and asking the AI to create that for me... I think that's what gives me the depth of psychological impact" - Jessica Jackson

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AI + Art = Creative Intelligence
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AI + Art = Creative Intelligence

Tech-based artists are merging their creative right brains with their analytical left brains. Does this holistic approach change art for art's sake into art as a visual prompt? I asked Alex Dodge.

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AI + Art = Phase Change
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AI + Art = Phase Change

Phase change is when matter changes from one state into another (water to ice). AI is phase changing visual art into a hybrid form of uncanny illusions. Aude Rech explains what that means to her.

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AI + Art = Merged Reality
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AI + Art = Merged Reality

Amy Ellingson's analog/digital art illuminates the merged experience of living betwixt and between. With her ideas anchored in history, she's able to leap into the unknown.

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AI + Art = Engineered Art
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AI + Art = Engineered Art

Jiabao Li's philosophy of creativity is turning breath into food, mice into mentors, empathy into action, and curiosity into knowledge. Is engineered art the future?

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AI + Art = AI Artists
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AI + Art = AI Artists

Prompted to life, these AI artists are not alive, but they draw their creative inspiration from humans, and they hope we'll find their work relevant.

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AI + Art = Accelerated Imagination
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AI + Art = Accelerated Imagination

I discovered Blumquist's art on Instagram. His original use of the AI imaging tool Midjourney caught my eye, and I reached out to learn more about his work.

He lives in Germany with his family, and he’s a musician. That intrigued me. How could someone not trained in media art produce these sophisticated images? I asked if he’d describe the experience of making art with AI, and he generously agreed.

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AI + Art = Signs of the Time
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AI + Art = Signs of the Time

Computers and electronics made enormous strides during WWII. After the war, a sign painter, Ben Laposky, who dabbled in math and made art as a hobby, began to explore the creative possibilities of Oscilloscopes. His experiments were successful, the art was well-received, and he went on to become the first generative artist.

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