bing ai
Sketching ideas to jump off from with ai has been a main focus for this ai project. Ceramic wall relief has a long history and seems to be making a resurgence in the contemporary art world. Here are a few ai-generated relief installation concept close-ups with my spin.
Images generated with Bing.ai / Dalle-2
One of the things I have been playing with is imagining my artwork in a fantastical ai gallery space. I mostly use ai generated gallery images that have clues that they are unrealistic (such as scale, strange proportions, flawed people, odd patterns, etc.) and I don’t put much effort if any into retouching to make it all more true to life. A quick look during a scrolling session could have someone thinking otherwise in some instances, but any of these images I post are labeled with what is mine, what is not and the ai generator used. It is fun to see what these combinations bring.
Gallery images generated with meta ai with my work added.
Gallery images generated with bing ai with my work added.
I have always had a fascination with archaeology and the sea and I continue to circle back around these topics. For quite some time I mainly worked in printmaking and multimedia, but I’ve recently refocused more around ceramics and drawing. This has led down an interesting path both in terms of concept iteration and in what I’m producing.
I started thinking about ceramic vessels— if sat in the sea for a long time what would accumulate on them and how could they mutate and take on a life of their own. I’ve continued to follow this line of thought to see where it will bring me both conceptually and visually.
Bing’s Dalle-2 was a fun place to play out some of these ideas and concepts. Here are some initial iterations of vessels with the eye as an inherent part of a seashell, sometimes manifesting as a pupil (hole) or an operculum of sorts. Though they are symmetrical they are not too uniform so there is an uncanny handmade quality to them. The ceramic texture are spot on as are the imperfections.
Images generated with Bing.ai / Dalle-2
Playing with Bing’s image generator I found Dalle-2 to be my favorite version. The images I started generating in early August had personality! I particularly liked the mix of realism and quirky ai oddness. Bing has moved on to Dalle-3, which I find to be too over the top. Every image generated is completely covered in stuff from top to bottom like it’s trying too hard and there is no nuance to these images. See the difference between the photos below using the same prompt, Dalle-2 first, then Dalle-3. Dalle-2 is no longer available for free unfortunately. I wish it was, I miss it!
Images generated with bing.ai / Dalle-2
Image generated with bing.ai / Dalle-3