Generative AI is commonly presented to artists as an extension of their powers: to imagine, to visualise, to be more productive and efficient, to make new meanings, to create new art. Like all technologies, it is an amplifier of our abilities to do things. But if technologies can amplify some of our abilities, they will likely suppress, or filter, others. If you’re an artist, a designer, working in VFX, a photographer, a musician, an architect, or an established, aspiring or enthusiast practitioner in any other creative field, this series explores critical approaches and tools for you to incorporate into navigating that field in a post-Generative AI world.
December 16, 2024
Critical Tools for ArtistsBefore I begin this series properly, I'd like to make some clear definitions of who I'm writing the majority of these notes for, and who I believe will benefit the most from them....
December 4, 2024
Critical Tools for ArtistsThis tweet, written by a specialist in the machine learning field, has been doing the rounds lately. Shared and co-signed by a lot of the enthusiastic early adopters of AI image making tools, it's finding a new lease of life outside of Twitter...
December 3, 2024
Critical Tools for ArtistsThis feels like a good place to begin. I remember when I realised everything was about to change - it was the end of 2017, and I had just seen some examples of machine learning powered photo editing capabilities coming out of Nvidia Research...