AI animation

 Domo.ai

What we have to remember about peoples use of this technology is their output reflects their visionary ability: therefore if 90% of the people using it are twats their output will be crap anyway. 

Always remember;  “50% of all people are less than average intelligence.” SnakeAppleTree

The 10% using this software more professionally because of their vision and their approach to it will be doing better stuff with it than the average users. 

Of those, 7 out of 10 are egotistical plagiarists and copyists whose focus on making money and fame will drive half of them become relatively famous and wealthy with passably average-good products as time-wasting distractions for the lowest common denominator. 

The remaining 3% of all people will produce stuff worth watching at all because it will be fresh, pioneering, different, quality products with something usefully insightful actually worthy of money and fame. 

Of those, 2/3 won’t have the skill-set to market the stuff. This includes the elite, the very best cutting-edge and pioneering stuff which will takes years to emerge if at all. Humanities true genius is gathering dust in the drawers of the crippling social anxiety disorder demographic. 

The 1% who do produce innovative, quality, commercial success are the ones who are obsessed with their product enough to achieve that. It’s what it takes. Those people do not have any time to compromise with their obsession by allowing distractions to sway them from it. 

So when we see the technology puts the power of creativity into the hands of the masses, the assumption the market will be flooded with new-wave art is a misperception. The social media platforms will be flooded with crap. Any fear it will be an increasingly mercantile marketplace with more voices shouting louder to be heard, this is true but it’s not something to worry about at all for the professional level of the industry. As long as you keep your focus and don’t compromise your intention. 

The people who use this tech to make advanced products worth money which will still be respected in decades from now, and there are hardly any of those people out there. 

Competition is not something to worry about. Quality is worth worrying about: 

“A small amount of quality is better than a whole heap of shit.” SnakeAppleTree

AIvART2

 AI v ART 

part two

Attention is energy

“Home isn’t a place. It’s the people you’re with.”
​Xenia, Assassins Creed Odyssey

Attention energy is validation

We have added value when somebody recognises we exist.

Does the artist create goods-of-value
to gain attention for self-elevation? 
or
Does the artist create goods-of-value
because the artist is driven to do so,
without caring about other peoples opinion of the art? 

Self-evaluation is reliant on others opinions.

Does exploring this question help us to define what is ‘a real artist’? 

Is there a grey area between these things? 

“Nothing is ever finished.”
Peter Robinson

AIvART1

 AI v ART

part one 

Is using AI to produce art “cheating” ? 

Do the paint and paintbrush manufacturers own the painting?

No. The artist is recognised to be the operator of the tools. 
The artists skill is recognised to be of quantifiable value. 

Does the tool manufacturer own the produce? 

The AI is a tool. 

Selecting 
-paint (photos to derive imagery from) 
-paintbrush (descriptor words to generate visual texture) 
-theme (style algorithms)
is the artists skill set. 

Selecting
prime images from batches of hundreds, 
​of infinite potential, 
is the artists skill set.
The time consuming work involved. 

Producing the type of imagery the artist wants to look at,
to bring into the world,
to exist, to share a vision, 
is the artists skill set. 

AIvART3

 AI v ART 

part three

DEATH OF THE ARTIST

In Latin to ‘Profess’ is to state an aspiration. A professor was one who stated aspirations, which other’s often mistook for facts on the basis of professor having authority. 

The professors first profession is therefore that the professor has authority. That’s really what professing is all about. 

We should note the existence of professing predates the existence of the acadamy. 

We should also note ‘academic’ literally means irrelevant equally as much as it means qualified. 

Profession is all about qualification. 

Therefore; 

Is one’s attitude toward and about one’s studies and practises a factor in what makes an artist an artist? 

“S/He’s taking it professionally.” 

Encourages people to believe s/he is a professional. 

We are living in the era of push-button procedurally generated AI art which is visually often at a level beyond even most of the old masters accomplishments. This question of validating artists is more relevant today than it ever has been. 

But, what is art? 

“Art is what is perceived by the observer to be art.” 

So that idiot who haphazardly dribbled out a sketchy abstract crayon scrawl onto a piece of torn cardboard and immediately forgot about it because sincerely does not care about productivity and value, has created a work which must be given equal consideration to an oil painting created by one skilled in technique who has studied intently all their life. 

If the kids prefer ‘crayon on card’ to ‘boring costly’ then crayon on card has won the debate. 

Modern art galleries are as full of crayon on card as they are oily boredom. The prices of either are negotiable, as both have fetched at auction prices into the millions. 

Therefore, the question regarding a persons attitude toward their products being relevant in properly defining them as an artist, is answered. 

The artists opinion has little to do with the public opinion as to what constitutes art and what art is worth. 

Proclamation of oneself as professional artist has become irrelevant. We all are. 

Yet the tools now available to artists, tools which enable any of us to become artists, are more advanced now than at any other time in history. 

We are living through a renaissance, on top of the 20th century renaissance because finally industrial technology and the realm of art have successfully merged. 

So what is the difference between the untrained pushing buttons on a phone and ordering print copies online, to the person struggling to buy paint and sell paintings to pay their bills? 

The keeping alive of traditional skills is a huge factor. Concern about living as embodiment of human culture vs enslavement to the machine. 

“Ain’t nobody got time for that.” Alexi 

At this time we’re living in a short window of commercial print versus handmade painting.

We already have 3-D printers, it won’t be long before we have printing machines which can replicate the application of physical paint onto a canvas, from source image.

“Imagination is not imaginary.” Mather’s, OGD