Sometimes I wonder if people will look back and see the early 2020s as the golden age of weird computer-generated art, before it achieves inevitable sterile perfection.
I don't think AI will have a Golden Age, at least not in our lifetimes. But I have no doubt that art historians will include early AI work as a phase. Iterative-Plagiaristic gets my vote.
You do make a very good point, that the early stuff fires up the imagination, unless you're already Greg Rutkowski of course. There's something about the way AI would pull truly disparate sources and then blend them into a unified piece that was also very unique. It is a function of digital programming, if you care to scan the articles on stable diffusion generative intelligence. It also fits nicely into our own post-modern deconstructivism. I guess the computer nerds were influenced by what they saw in media, and made the computer do that for them. That anybody anywhere can with a click of the mouse get a reasonable idea of what Jesus looked like riding a T-Rex speaks to that.
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I don't think AI will have a Golden Age, at least not in our lifetimes. But I have no doubt that art historians will include early AI work as a phase. Iterative-Plagiaristic gets my vote.
You do make a very good point, that the early stuff fires up the imagination, unless you're already Greg Rutkowski of course. There's something about the way AI would pull truly disparate sources and then blend them into a unified piece that was also very unique. It is a function of digital programming, if you care to scan the articles on stable diffusion generative intelligence. It also fits nicely into our own post-modern deconstructivism. I guess the computer nerds were influenced by what they saw in media, and made the computer do that for them. That anybody anywhere can with a click of the mouse get a reasonable idea of what Jesus looked like riding a T-Rex speaks to that.
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