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AI’S GROWTH + ACCESSIBILITY

AI technology is growing at an exponential rate and is being used in all corners of life. This makes interacting or having a relationship with AI inevitable. AI has provided affordable solutions and shortcuts in coding, radiology, cancer screening, customer service, and more. The advantage AI provides in the art world is less clear than say AI catching a fracture in an x-ray that would have otherwise been missed. From the perspective of mostly non artists, AI makes art more accessible to everyone. Whether you're a small business owner trying to make a logo/flyer, or someone who struggles to draw and wants to visualize a concept/idea, AI provides a cheaper, often free, solution.

ARTIST PERSPECTIVES + CREATIVITY

From some artists perspective AI destroys creativity and using AI for your business is taking money away from people who live off of their graphic design skills. While scrolling instagram today I happened to come across a reel of a filmmaker making an ad for ClaudeAI by creating a video of her asking ClaudeAI questions about Claude Monet while at the Claude Monet Museum. I thought this was quite an interesting intersection between AI and art. You have an artist(filmmaker) creating an ad(art) without AI for an AI company by using the AI to ask about one of the most famous artists. I think ClaudeAI's approach is also interesting when it comes to AI and art. Unlike grok and openai, ClaudeAI doesn't associate itself with generating art, just providing information on it.

AI COLLABORATION

For this project, since the theme was AI, I used chatgpt to create the background by uploading different "art" I made. In my own opinion I think this is a pretty neutral collaboration between the "artist" and AI where the AI's only role is to essentially remix the original artists work. I think this collaboration is similar to using an app to create a video GLITCH.

How I had chatgpt make this background:

A Days Work Making Fish & Chips - Finn Skerlj, VISA 180 project

Frame from The Farmer & The Pig, an animatic I made for DES 200

Sketchbook page

Artist research in sketchbook

Picture of the floor at Go Fish, the inspiration for my VISA 180 project

Sketchbook page