This page is a collection of interactions I’ve had with AI-image generation. Each piece was created using a “blend” function and a prompt to merge two or more of my physical artworks into digital hyper-concepts. Basically I fed my artwork into the engine and instructed it what to do via a text prompt. In this case these were done using Midjourney although there are a few Dall-e things in here as well.
This process is wild and alien but also powerful. In Traditional creative processes there’s a certain physicality that introduces style into the work, from the mind, through the hand, and onto paper or whatever. But this was a transcription of idea into matter that took place outside the personal mind and body. An extracorporeal creative act.
The examples I’ve included here stood out as relevant to my work and within the realm of my style. I did reintegrate a few of these designs into my studio practice and developed them further, those are the ones I would sign. Countless iterations of them exist somewhere in a digital cloud. Some were stunningly cool, yet I was reluctant to take full ownership of them, especially if they seemed like someone else’s ideas
Where do we go when creativity becomes an extracorporeal mechanism? That’s a question that I asked an AI recently and this is what it said.
“AI accelerates and complicates this process [externalized creativity through tools] by generating images at a scale and speed that can feel alienating. Instead of a tool that simply extends the artist’s hand, it can act more like an externalized creative force, one that responds to input but operates with its own internal logic. The question then becomes: how much of the creative process do we still own when the mechanism is no longer fully under our control? And at what point does art-making become more about curation than creation?”
It does feel like curation and direction are the new paradigm with this technology. Hopefully it can complement the bodily experience of art making rather than override it. I guess it’s a matter of use, it’s an extremely powerful tool.
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