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Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by didntknowya »

kamilszybalski wrote: post #54
prions wrote: post #30

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This is really cool! I'd love to seed the GAN with my own artwork and generate new pieces in my style

this comment seeded an interesting idea! Many artists and photographers want to get into the NFT space but they don't necessarily have experience in digital art creation. If you could leverage AI to generate digital art based on real artist/photographer inputs, perhaps you could create a nice little marketplace business.. or maybe just a simple AI generator plugin for an existing marketplace..

i don't know any real artists who actually want to get into the NFT space, only con-artists.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by bluerival »

raisedbyninjas wrote: post #108
dheera wrote: post #79

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Yeah I think the way I'd do it (personally) is have an RPi constantly generate new images in the background and cache them until storage is maxed out, then when you hit the button it just fetches the next image from cache. That would allow the frame to be somewhat lower power and also decrease ventilation requirements -- no fan needed.

Is it me or is this more of a woodworking guide than an AI art guide? I only see a small blurb to put AI art code here . Presumably the button/replenish image dir. is a seed component to the AI. I suppose that further removing the art generation from the installation diminishes the magic of art. The engineer in me would further trim this down by pre-generating art on a PC and slap it on an SD card plugged into basic…

The difference between this project and a digital photo frame is as you’ve described - The AI generation. I think the destruction makes it special too, if every unique image disappears forever at the click of a button.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by LegitShady »

mfi wrote: post #138
LegitShady wrote: post #68

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perhaps the whole installation is art, if as a whole there's some kind of overall intention, message, or communication. Personally having trouble seeing that here. It's more a tech demo. It's a digital picture frame that generates its pictures procedurally from a neural network.

I'm glad that you're bringing this up, because it's an interesting (almost philosophical question) around what art is. In my mind, the interesting part in this installation is not necessarily the generated artworks, but rather the fact that they are one push of a button away from being deleted forever. It adds a consumable aspect to the installation, which I think is interesting. Can that evoke emotions and be art in…

>but rather the fact that they are one push of a button away from being deleted forever

but how is that expressed or communicated through the installation? Why should anyone value random patterns generated by a machine that had no intention?

I find andy goldsworthy's art incredible, and he bases his work almost entirely on this idea of impermanent art (although his is usually found materials). I'm not sure its communicated by what you've presented.

I think the impermanence of random patterns that don't communicate anything is something you can find interesting rather than something thats communicated by the video screen, or the intention of the installation.

It's a cool project, but ya, still not sold on this being art per se.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by slobot »

As an artist and an avid reader of HN, I find this both fascinating and terrifying (!) at the same time. Before I started painting robots, I painted abstracts and was heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism. The images that your AI are generating (creating?!) are really cool. Equally as cool is that the images are deleted once a new one is generated, because a lot of the famous artists destroyed or painted over old works.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by slobot »

reacharavindh wrote: post #106

As cool as this is, I have been struggling to find a good non-AI digital photo display for my house. The common ones you can buy as “digital photo frame” on Amazon sucks in image quality. I would like a minimalistic digital photo display that is colour accurate, hidpi, preferably have a way to store a handful of hi res images(if not, Adding a Pi-zero for this is still okay). Oh I am not so rich or hosting an art gall…

I did something like this for an install using cheap 10" android tablets and kiosk software I found on the app store. Worked like a charm.

** https://slobots.com/2019/01/gallery-view-i-love-my-robot-at-...

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by pfundstein »

mfi wrote: post #2

I just finished my latest project, building an AI art installation at home, generating 100 % unique artworks on the fly. Just push the button below the screen and another one will be displayed. When the button has been pushed, the old artwork is deleted and can't be retrieved again. Setup: * An Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX was used for all logic, machine learning inference, art kiosk GUI etc. * A StyleGAN was used to gene…

Why not use the artworks themselves as a screensaver?

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by leppr »

tartoran wrote: post #89
kamilszybalski wrote: post #54

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this comment seeded an interesting idea! Many artists and photographers want to get into the NFT space but they don't necessarily have experience in digital art creation. If you could leverage AI to generate digital art based on real artist/photographer inputs, perhaps you could create a nice little marketplace business.. or maybe just a simple AI generator plugin for an existing marketplace..

Most artists (with some exceptions) want to have nothing to do with AI generative art. They will simply continue to produce art the way they do with older technologies such as paints and brushes, musical instruments, film equipment, writing tools, and so on. Art making involves a process, a state of mind and there's always a human behind it who digests everything around them and spit something out. All these imitativ…

A lot of what we call "art" now means just "pleasant picture". I could see AI "art" competing on price with stock pictures and cheap illustrations for throwaway/placeholder usecases, or when uniqueness is preferred.

It's already happening with social media profile pictures for instances. Next up could be the filler artworks in hotel rooms.

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Post by tartoran »

artur_makly wrote: post #126
tartoran wrote: post #89

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Most artists (with some exceptions) want to have nothing to do with AI generative art. They will simply continue to produce art the way they do with older technologies such as paints and brushes, musical instruments, film equipment, writing tools, and so on. Art making involves a process, a state of mind and there's always a human behind it who digests everything around them and spit something out. All these imitativ…

Everything is a remix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd-dqUuvLk4

Made by humans and that is key. They digest what came before and spit out something else, a remix as you call it but which does veer in different directions over time

Re: Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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Post by lazlee »

mfi wrote: post #135
lazlee wrote: post #102

I'm curious about, beyond time and labor, how much $$$ the project ran you.

The Frame 32" and Nvidia Xavier NX cost ~$500 each (including import taxes etc), the rest (cable channels, screws etc) ~$50. So a total of around $1050

Thanks. Awesome project buddy.
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