[Workshop]
Contextualising AI: Sampling the Masters
13, 16 December 2022
With Digital Focus module students at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Course Brief
Think about the masters of craftsmanship you resonate with in different timelines throughout art history. Using the text & image-based AI models, experiment with your own narrative exploring the idea of artists’ ownership.
Copy, modify, break down, re-generate, re-purpose, mix, stretch, zoom in and out, collage, tear it apart and re-stitch the original artwork using AI models. Question yourself what this means to you.
Actively use the sampling method to investigate the authorship of this work. Do not be afraid of challenging them. While you’re welcome to freely explore this subject, keep respect in mind.
This workshop is designed to critically about the topic of artificial intelligence and creativity by challenging the concept of authorship.
After understanding the methodology of Sampling and discussions about ethics in AI, we touched upon and experimented with tools such as GPT-3, dall-e, Hugging Face Transformer, Disco Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, Flow Frames, Melobytes, and Ebsynth.
After a long day of learning, the students gave presentations about what they researched and what direction they were interested in developing.
Students’ interests were fascinatingly varied, from Tunisian rap images (Ines), flies, metamorphosis, failures of communication (Bart), and K-pop stars (Seungun). A student, Werd, collected pictures from SD cards he found in secondhand shops to make a dataset to train.
After experimenting and producing, we had a small laptop exhibition of all the works.
Sophie created the ‘cursed’ version of Spongebob.
Lukaz reworked Keith Harring.
Sangeun created an imaginary idol’s album cover to critique the artificiality of the K-pop industry.
This workshop went over time with enthusiastic students discussing the works. We went for a beer afterwards to celebrate! Thanks to all students being tightly engaged with learning!
