Vanessa Weigandt
interdisciplinary Arts year 2, project February - April 2024
In the coming eight weeks, we will explore how we can engage with AI from an artistic perspective. We will do this through methods of artistic research and artistic engagement.
We will discuss about, read into, and investigate the topic of AI. Each week we will attend lectures from speakers of different backgrounds, all somehow connected to AI. This research will lead into several works presented by you, from which you will show one on the final presentation.
We call this course a **research studio**. A research studio is an educational environment and a site for practice-based research at the same time. Both students and teachers explore the topic of AI together. Exchanging skills, methods, and discourses within a group incites you to critically reflect on, adapt and ‘translate’ your skills and knowledge.
We will discuss about, read into, and investigate the topic of AI. Each week we will attend lectures from speakers of different backgrounds, all somehow connected to AI. This research will lead into several works presented by you, from which you will show one on the final presentation.
We call this course a **research studio**. A research studio is an educational environment and a site for practice-based research at the same time. Both students and teachers explore the topic of AI together. Exchanging skills, methods, and discourses within a group incites you to critically reflect on, adapt and ‘translate’ your skills and knowledge.
Is Artifical Intelligence the key to answering ethical questions?
This Artwork was created in Unreal Engine.
Visuals edited with Touchdesigner and Davinci Resolve.
Free sound samples.
23.02.24
This Artwork was created in Unreal Engine.
Visuals edited with Touchdesigner and Davinci Resolve.
Free sound samples.
23.02.24
What is set in stone?
This work was created in Blender
01.03.24
This work was created in Blender
01.03.24
How is violence ingrained in our entertainment technology and simultaneously avoided in the offline reality?
Kinetic sculpture with sound
Made from cardboard box, papermache, tape, thread, wire, fabric
Video/sound created with Davinci Resolve with free sound samples
08.03.24
Kinetic sculpture with sound
Made from cardboard box, papermache, tape, thread, wire, fabric
Video/sound created with Davinci Resolve with free sound samples
08.03.24
Where does your truth come from?
Animated collage made from pictures that I do not own (imitating AI art generation)
15.03.24
Animated collage made from pictures that I do not own (imitating AI art generation)
15.03.24
Prompt (ChatGPT3.5):
"Imagine you are a machine without human concept of art. How would you represent the dark side of artificial intelligence? It does not need to make sense to humans."
Visualized with stability-ai/sdxl, Genom.ai and audiobox by meta
Presented with vpt8 and ukulele
22.03.24
"Imagine you are a machine without human concept of art. How would you represent the dark side of artificial intelligence? It does not need to make sense to humans."
Visualized with stability-ai/sdxl, Genom.ai and audiobox by meta
Presented with vpt8 and ukulele
22.03.24
Prompt (ChatGPT3.5):
"Write a story for a comic. It is about Britain in 1800. They are magpies, traveling around the globe and snatching artefacts from other cultures. As they arrive back in Britain, they realize that they spent all their money on the travels around the globe and now have no budget left to fund their own art."
Images created with sdxl1, assembled in Canva
05.04.24
"Write a story for a comic. It is about Britain in 1800. They are magpies, traveling around the globe and snatching artefacts from other cultures. As they arrive back in Britain, they realize that they spent all their money on the travels around the globe and now have no budget left to fund their own art."
Images created with sdxl1, assembled in Canva
05.04.24
AI generates art based on established art, recreating nostalgia.
Art is always pushing boundaries. If AI creates something that looks like art, it is not. It only creates dejavus - redigesting what already exists.
Visuals created with stable diffusion and getimg.ai, compiled in Davinci Resolve
12.04.24
Art is always pushing boundaries. If AI creates something that looks like art, it is not. It only creates dejavus - redigesting what already exists.
Visuals created with stable diffusion and getimg.ai, compiled in Davinci Resolve
12.04.24
Worship in a Wired World
A kinetic sculpture made from a broken umbrella. wire, cables, and powered by an Arduino.
What gods are we serving?
18.04.24
A kinetic sculpture made from a broken umbrella. wire, cables, and powered by an Arduino.
What gods are we serving?
18.04.24