“An inspired sense of order you may have received as gift, the schools don’t give it to you”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Most of the work featured here have been created by a process I have termed Human-Augmented Generative Artificial Intelligence (HAGAI). The nature and extent of such human augmentation is a matter of some serendipity.
The algorithms came and it became possible to speak, or write your ideas into reality, on canvas. So the word became art (or had the potential to become art), no messy media or long waits in-between. But which words will create what outcome? and how is that vocabulary acquired? So there still remains the need for the artist to command the real-world media and technical analogues that the algorithms mimic, thus birthing the possibility of a new kind of art and artist rooted in the knowledge of the old ways.
For all it’s power and promise, it may be the case that AI merely provides a new starting point for the artistic vision and like all tools has the potential to bear the mark of whom wields it. To continue the literary analogy, even when drawing from the same vocabulary, individual writers still retain their distinct voice. The vision for the art work will always be the artists’ and this way of creating perhaps more than most, demands that vision and point of view; that instinct that lets the artist know what is ‘in’ and what’s not.
One of the more exciting consequences of this way of creating is that it empowers who has the experience or at least the sensibility to create the work, even from the margins. So people who are defined in the popular imagination largely by the many tragedies that have beset them can now begin to contribute to the artistic representation of their existence and to thus declare their hopes and aspirations. This new medium also introduces a measure of technical parity, so that those who have lacked the longstanding history and pedigree in the mechanics of production are now able to author high-fidelity visual records all the same