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CO/AI Team
March 25, 2024
Welcome to Creatives + GenAI
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Curating the Coolest AI Art, GenAI apps and the Creatives making it
Today’s Letter:
The great video revolution + more(4 Min)
Artist Spotlight
Robots Take the Whitney
GenAI Ads
OpenAI Sora Soars
Cool Tools
Infinite Petals (Artist Spotlight)
Sarah Meyohas
Project Name: Infinite Petals
Artist: Sarah Meyohas
Concept:
Trained a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) on 100,000 rose petals to create endless, unique digital petals.
The dataset was compiled during the "Cloud of Petals" project.
Data Collection:
Sixteen workers photographed each petal individually at the former Bell Labs site in New Jersey.
This site was known for major technological innovations like the transistor and silicon solar cell.
A "real-life algorithm" was used: workers manually handled each petal for photographing and uploading.
Technological Significance:
The project utilized GAN technology, nascent in 2017
Technical Details of GAN:
The GAN-generated petals consist of 512 dimensions, representing a vast and complex latent space.
Physical Artifacts
Workers preserved one petal per rose, totaling 3,291 petals.
Sarah Meyohas
Digital Transformation:
Physical petals were digitally transformed into various algorithmic patterns (e.g., checkerboards, concentric squares, Game of Life).
Exploration and Themes:
Explores algorithmic beauty and the emergence phenomenon in both natural and artificial systems.
Exhibitions:
Variations of Infinite Petals were exhibited at the Flint Institute of Arts and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum.
A short film on “Cloud of Petals” is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou.
Current Exhibition:
Part of the Chanel Culture Fund's The Window project, displayed 24/7 at the Time & Life building, Bruton Street, London.
Robots at The Whitney 🏛
Harold Cohen, a British painter, developed AARON, an AI image-generating software over four decades, culminating in a sophisticated man-machine collaboration showcased at the Whitney Museum. Early works were simple line drawings, evolving into complex scenes with human figures and vibrant, hand-applied color.
Unlike current AI tools that rely on massive data sets, AARON operates with a painter's logic, building images stroke by stroke based on rules for composition, color, and a limited vocabulary of forms, focusing on creating rather than replicating
Cohen's insistence on AARON's outputs standing on equal terms with hand-made art challenges perceptions of AI-generated art.
GenAI Ads: 💽
Secret Level's AI-driven video project showcases a groundbreaking blend of AI, VFX, animation, and live-action, redefining content creation with rapid, collaborative processes that hint at the future of storytelling and artistic expression.
The initiative serves as both a demonstration of AI's transformative potential in the creative industry and a call to action for creatives to embrace technological advancements, addressing fears of job displacement with a vision of enhanced human-machine collaboration.
OpenAI SORA Soars 🕊
Open AI has developed Sora, an AI model that revolutionizes video creation by generating realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions, capable of producing videos up to a minute long with high visual quality and adherence to prompts.
Cool Tools:
Introducing Suno: Revolutionizing sound creation, allowing users to generate original compositions directly from their web browser. Designed to bridge the gap between musical creativity and technological accessibility. Suno supports integration with Microsoft's Copilot.
We tried Suno here at COAI, and its text-to-music feature is off to a great start. It does take time to get the hang of generation, and it's not always that responsive to prompting.
You can make great music, whether you're a shower singer or a charting artist. No instrument needed, just imagination.
Make your song today at suno.ai 🎧
— Suno (@suno_ai_)
2:29 AM • Dec 20, 2023