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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 ozzmotik »

LegitShady wrote: post #67
cryptoz wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign, signaling some sort of message or meaning. even if there is no evident or inherent intent being encompassed in some chunk of reality, there is still something being signified, and therefore something being communicated. in cases like this, the art is the interpretant formulated by the interpreter, a personal value judgment, rather than some intended value encoded by some given creator of art.

just my take on it, maybe it might provide a framework for seeing how even unintentional, stochastic processes can be conceived of as art. :)

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

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

First, I would like to say well done. Not just the project -- it is neat. I particularly appreciate the fact that it includes all the less obvious, to me, pieces like building appropriate box, sanding and so on.

I wish more projects were like this ( as in, showed most of the steps ).

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

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Post by LegitShady »

ozzmotik wrote: post #81
LegitShady wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign, signaling some sort of message or meaning. even if there is no evident or inherent intent being encompassed in some chunk of reality, there is still something being signified, and therefore something being communicated. in cases like this, the art is the interpretant formulated by the interpreter, a personal value judgment, rather than some intended value enc…

>in the semiotic tradition of Peirce, everything is a sign

Again, if you interpret changing a tire, spilling milk, or the vomiting after drinking too heavily as art, I disagree with you. Are traffic signs art, in and of themselves? are all signs art?

I don't think I agree with you. I've never read peirce and I don't do that 'argument from authority' thing, but given your wording here I don't think I agree with what you're saying.

>the art is the interpretant formulated by the interpreter,

So according to pierce, my interpretation of this as not as art is as valid as you thinking its art, since that's how im interpreting it? It doesn't seem like a very self consistent idea.

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

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Post by Quarrel »

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…

Ok, so this is cool as fuck.

I don't think much of the actually produced art, but the fact that you laid out your whole process makes this drool-worthy. Now it is just a challenge as to- can I do better?

Great job.

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

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Post by Justin_K »

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…

Awesome! I'd recommend running your cables behind the drywall, the look is very clean!

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

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Post by jonbraun »

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…

Cool installation! What was the process of obtaining the 5k abstract art images?

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

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Post by turtlebits »

spoonjim wrote: post #8

The installation is impressive but the output is underwhelming. Then again, I feel the same about the pieces in most contemporary art museums.

Agreed, but I think the animated GIF and small, extremely compressed JPGs in the repo don't help. Maybe a youtube video?

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

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Post by tartoran »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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..

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 imitative AI art are beautiful in their own way but really have no substance; once the wow factor weans out they won't have much of a leg to stand on in my opinion. Art making is a self discovering journey at the same time.

Having said that, I'm curious and somewhat excited to see how these will evolve. As I said, I find them beautiful. As a painter myself there is nothing out there that will make me not paint. Sure, I sometimes use tools but there's always the me in there who is in control or driven by my human instinct.

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