Year: 2022
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Who is the Artist and What is the Impact?
in: Research
On the surface, AI-Generation software appears to be a tool capable of creating a work of art without human intervention. If so, who then is the artist? Is it the tool or the person who operates the tool[i] or should authorship be shared? Generally, we view a tool as being under the control of the…
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Are AI Generated Results Art and Is It Ethical?
in: Research
The answer to these questions is not straightforward. If the sole determinant of something being a piece of art was tied to its aesthetic qualities, then I think an argument could be made that for the public audience these generated works often appear to be art. Yet, as artist, researcher and educator Dejan Grba notes,…
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AI-Generated Art: How Does It Work
in: Research
Four images generated using the same terms: Paul Klee, German Church Steeple. Church Steele represents the object I wanted to display. German is intended to be a modifier to narrow the style of architecture. Paul Klee is another modifier intended to influence the style or genre of the result. The actual details of Artificial Intelligence…
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An Essay On the Democratization of Art
in: Research
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence-based tools, in general, and specifically for the creation of art, has raised several questions for me as an artist and photographer. This is the first in a series of posts where I intend to explore some of these questions, but more fundamentally, I wonder if the output of an AI-based…
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Waste
in: Documentary
Waste cans dot the city, in parks, near bus stops, by building entrances. Throwing litter on the street seems like a form of entitlement, a snub announcing I am in a position to do this.