The Age Of Co-Creation With AI Has Begun

As a young adult, I discovered that art is not only a form of self-expression, but also a conversation between the creator and the audience. With the advent of generative art tools driven by artificial intelligence, machines are now ever more present in this dialogue.

Image-based forms of art, whether digital or physical, can take decades to perfect, yet the journey of learning new techniques and tools never truly ends.

What I have seen so far is that the capabilities of these new AI tools are beyond imagination, and they have the potential to revolutionize the process of creating visual art, design, music, architecture, fashion and many other creative industries. However, in my opinion, it will never replace the value of direct human creation. In fact, I see room for traditional art to gain in value and importance in coming years as generative AI continues to find market fit.

The following is a collection of 60 themed experiments using AI-powered generative art tools such as Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, sometimes with some influence from ChatGPT (each labeled accordingly). They were selected from a batch of over 16,000 images.

While I see this as a valuable investment in understanding the capabilities of systems that will undoubtedly influence the future direction of creation tools, I also see it as a powerful and rapid research method for developing materials, exploring new concepts, and ultimately adding another variable to my creative process.

While credit should go to the creators of these tools and the artists whose art was ultimately used to train these models, I like to think of this as a collaboration between man and machine, where my ideas and curiosities can evolve as quickly as these tools can produce them.

If AI interests you, it may be worth reading some of the articles I have published on LinkedIn. They include my experience with generative art and text, as well as my outlook on how AI may influence creative processes.

Experiments Created on Jun 2022 - Feb 2023