Art shouldn't be unlimited. Its ok to call things screensavers, because screensavers are also cool, its just that it isnt art in the sense of "art" the word, if an AI is doing it, its something else, and making it unlimited is not interesting, it is irresponsible. Its the constraints that make art what it is, not simply the definition of an infinite possibility space
Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly
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#62This is awesome. Is the StyleGAN code removed (to keep it private)? I see this commit message: "Remove my ML stuff." I'm interested in understanding the StyleGAN if you are open to sharing it.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
He just needs a higher resolution screen, a screen that is much bigger, and placed inside of very nice frame. With the cables hidden. Then it's ready for the gallery. Especially if you could come up with a way to filter out some of the images that look too much like how a random broken monitor will output. This image in particular feels like "real" art to me. https://imgur.com/gaJVSs3
it's okay as it is -- IF, and only IF, the artist says so ! Rauschenberg too, as well as Lichtenstein and many others, wouldn't have liked it a bit being turned into some hotair egomaniac 0-creative wraped in plastic in some fin-groupies Schnabel'oesque or Koons'ian gallery spot
Taking existing art and twisting it is art too. In fact there was a movement I can't recall the name of dedicated to this?
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#64I 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…
>> Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX
Curious -- since you're only doing the inference/generation on the frame, and since you're not doing it all the time, did you need a Jetson or would an RPI have sufficed? Did you test inference speeds across different edge compute options?
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#65Art shouldn't be unlimited. Its ok to call things screensavers, because screensavers are also cool, its just that it isnt art in the sense of "art" the word, if an AI is doing it, its something else, and making it unlimited is not interesting, it is irresponsible. Its the constraints that make art what it is, not simply the definition of an infinite possibility space
If you're going to gatekeep what art can be, you better have some pretty impressive creative credentials of your own. Some people say "an unlimited edition is meaningless, has no value" and all they really mean is "I'm conservative, I don't see the point of change, and I can't think of any way an unlimited edition could be interesting"
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#66Art shouldn't be unlimited. Its ok to call things screensavers, because screensavers are also cool, its just that it isnt art in the sense of "art" the word, if an AI is doing it, its something else, and making it unlimited is not interesting, it is irresponsible. Its the constraints that make art what it is, not simply the definition of an infinite possibility space
It certainly isn't unlimited. It is confined by resolution and color depth.
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#67Personally believe that art requires intention and some attempt at communication but it's an interesting project.
Who's to say that the AI doesn't have intent, and makes no attempt at communication? These are certainly very philosophical questions and I would be ready to stand by the idea that first, there is possibly intent and communication here, and second, I've never heard of this narrow definition of art before. Art is art, defining it so narrowly seems strange to me.
It's ok to disagree with me - everyone is allowed a different opinion on art. I'll explain a bit more about my opinion, which you are free to disagree with.
Personally I don't think a machine generating pixels from neural networks trained on intentional art can create art - it can create something that seems very similar because it seems to generate the same or similar output but its missing the process and intention of art. If an artist draws random shapes with no intention or intent to communicate or evoke thought/emotion, all they're doing is making shapes, unless the random shapes themselves are an intent to communicate something (which is difficult if they're actually random).
'art is art' is a tautology with no meaning, and defining art in a way that makes some things not art is the only way you can have a useful definition of art.
Change my tire? Art. Spill chocolate milk on the table? art. vomit after drinking too much? art. because art is art, right?
I guess the question is why you think everything, including things done without intention or intent to communicate, is art?
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#68Personally believe that art requires intention and some attempt at communication but it's an interesting project.
I think the generated pixels are not the art. The whole piece is the art, made by the artist, i.e. the OP.
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.
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#70Now have it automatically issue one NFT every few minutes. Profit!