1.7 AI and Artistic Explorations
Tracks
Track 7
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza P11 |
Speaker
Dr Juergen Hagler
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
FP: Animation in the Age of AI: Creative Dialog With Algorithms
11:00 AM - 11:25 AMAbstract
LUCID is an experimental animated short film that explores the interplay of dance, music, and artificial intelligence (AI). Our objective was to examine the role and impact of style transfer technologies and other AI animation tools and the potential of creative human-AI collaboration in animation filmmaking.
We investigated how these technologies change artistic processes, open new creative possibilities, and redefine the relationship between artists and their tools. A particular focus was placed on the creative Human-AI collaboration and on the interaction of technological innovation and artistic expression to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current and potential impact of AI-based style transfer and AI-generated images in the art world. Using the film LUCID as an example, we show how the creative collaboration process between artists and AI tools may become a central theme of the animated film.
We investigated how these technologies change artistic processes, open new creative possibilities, and redefine the relationship between artists and their tools. A particular focus was placed on the creative Human-AI collaboration and on the interaction of technological innovation and artistic expression to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current and potential impact of AI-based style transfer and AI-generated images in the art world. Using the film LUCID as an example, we show how the creative collaboration process between artists and AI tools may become a central theme of the animated film.
Biography
Juergen Hagler is an academic researcher and curator at the interface of animation, game, and media art. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Animation and Media Studies and the head of studies of the bachelor’s and master’s programme Digital Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus. Since 2014 he is the co-head of the research group Playful Interactive Environments with a focus on the investigation of new and natural forms of interaction and the use of playful mechanisms to encourage specific behavioral patterns. He has been involved in the activities of Ars Electronica since 1997 in a series of different functions. Since 2017 he is the director of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival and initiator and organizer of the Expanded Animation Symposium. In 2023, he founded ANIMA PLUS, a Linz-based organization with the aim of supporting animation art and culture in Upper Austria and beyond.
Mr Johnny Diblasi
Iowa State University
FP: Gradient Topologies: Perpetual Tuning of AI Systems as Artistic Performance
11:25 AM - 11:50 AMAbstract
In this paper the author discusses factors of artificial intelligence (AI) that affect approaches to the creative process in general and how these influence the relationships between creators, technologies, and the resulting works. This paper is an inquiry into how AI can serve as framework for practice in the arts as well as to explore some of the properties creative AI exhibited through its use in the author's audio-visual performance artworks. Specifically, this paper will ask the question, what is the language of AI in the artist’s own creative practice. He will explore this question as it relates to the artwork 432Hz, a live, generative soundscape performance that utilizes the act of training artificial neural networks (ANN) to generate various soundwaves that evolve over time and fluctuate between the harmonic and the discordant. 432Hz is performed with a custom audio synthesizer is also a custom-built neural network that the performer trains throughout the performance to learn to generate a combination of various sine wave frequencies. In this artwork, the AI model used serves as a model or framework for the aesthetics and structures of creative processes through the act of training or neuroevolution.
Biography
Johnny DiBlasi is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist whose practice sits at the intersection of art, science, and technology and that explores a range processes and interests. Through this creative practice, DiBlasi works with computational media, bio-data, digital networks, and artificial intelligence to create interactive installations that fuse site-specific data structures into a physical architecture. Through various works, he explores the aesthetic possibilities of data gathered in real time and how these aesthetic experiences can connect an audience to the pulse of the landscape in which they coexist. His works address timely topics in areas such as generative deep learning, cybernetics, phenomenology, human-computer interaction, and bio creation / data. DiBlasi exhibits his works and installations nationally and internationally at venues such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and SIGGRAPH, and he was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award for his research and creative project conducted at the Museums Quartier in Vienna. DiBlasi is Assistant Professor of in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Iowa State University. He earned an MFA from the Photographic and Electronic Media program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. DiBlasi teaches studio courses in creative AI, video, web design, creative coding, and interactive media. He is a founding member of the arts research group [phylum] which brings together other artists and researchers working at the intersection of science and technology. In addition to teaching, DiBlasi has experience working in the creative industry as a photographer and web designer.
Dr Ahran Koo
California State University
SP: AI or not AI: The Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence from Contemporary Artists in U.S.
11:50 AM - 12:05 PMAbstract
With a paradigm shift in art and technology, creating artwork using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more common in our everyday lives whereas the role of AI in creative practices has been debated in various contexts. The paper will highlight the practices of and insights from three AI artists and critiques residing in the United States, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Refik Anadol, and Şerife Wong. They suggest that AI use in creative activities can push the boundaries of artistic practices and can challenge our traditional understanding of artmaking. We en-courage fellow art practitioners to learn from the artists’ in-sights and practices to help others encounter new ways to de-velop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by employing the conceptual fluidity and flexibility required for human-centered AI use.
Biography
Ahran Koo is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art Education at California State University, Fresno. As an artist, art educator, and art advocate, she promotes the efficacy of art to address cultural and social awareness. Locally and globally, she focuses on community art and critical multiculturalism, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration through social engagement, and advocates culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogy. Dr. Koo has published various research at national and international journals and exhibited her artworks over twenty years. Dr. Koo received PhD in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University and MFA and BFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.
Dr Borim Song
Professor
East Carolina University
Co-presenter
Biography
Borim Song is a Professor of Art Education at the School of Art and Design of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. She holds her Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Her scholarly interests include new technologies for art education, online education practice, contemporary art in K-12 curriculum, cross-cultural and intercultural movements, and community-based art education for the underserved population. Song’s writings on art, art education, and cultural studies appear in publications in both the U.S. and Korea. Song also has actively exhibited her artwork, and her solo exhibitions were at Macy Gallery in New York City and at J. Y. Joyner Gallery, Greenville, NC.
Dr Borim Song
Professor
East Carolina University
SP: AI and Art Pedagogy
12:05 PM - 12:20 PMAbstract
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term coined by John McCarthy in 1956, has been continuously debated as creating arts using an AI has become more common in our daily lives. However, we argue that gifted arts educators are not yet prepared for the paradigm shift. As art educators interested in introducing contemporary art to the K-12 curriculum, in this paper, we shed light on the implications of the work of con-temporary artists who actively incorporate AI technologies into their practices, particularly for today’s gifted arts education. We highlight the bodies of work of three artists/artist groups: Patrick Tresset, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, and Es Devlin. Their definition of the role of AI in creative art making pro-cesses is distinctive in their own terms and centered on their artistic goals and missions. Constantly seeking artistic possibilities in playful ways, these artists focus on intuitive processes, maintaining and developing their artistic curiosity and critical thinking, rather than on technologies themselves. They suggest that AI use in creative activities can push the boundaries of artistic practices and can challenge our traditional notion of what constitutes good art. It also questions the definition of “gifted” and “talented.” We encourage fellow gifted arts educators to accept this new challenge and to help their students encounter new ways to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by employing the conceptual fluidity and flexibility required for human-centered AI use.
Biography
Borim Song is a Professor of Art Education at the School of Art and Design of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. She holds her Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Her scholarly interests include new technologies for art education, online education practice, contemporary art in K-12 curriculum, cross-cultural and intercultural movements, and community-based art education for underserved population. Song’s writings on art, art education, and cultural studies appear in publications in both the U.S. and Korea. Song also has actively exhibited her artwork, and her solo exhibitions were at Macy Gallery in New York City and at J. Y. Joyner Gallery, Greenville, NC.
Dr Ahran Koo
California State University
Co-presenter
Biography
Ahran Koo is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art Education at California State University, Fresno. As an artist, art educator, and art advocate, she promotes the efficacy of art to address cultural and social awareness. Locally and globally, she focuses on community art and critical multiculturalism, encourages interdisciplinary collaboration through social engagement, and advocates culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogy. Dr. Koo has published various research at national and international journals and exhibited her artworks over twenty years. Dr. Koo received PhD in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University and MFA and BFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.
Session chair
Cynthia P. Villagomez Oviedo
Guanajuato University
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