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The more AI-generated art I see the more convinced I am that it will generate entire new modes of art creation, rather than make creative work redundant.

I'm now waiting for a creation that could not have been done without AI, the labour that would be involved to create these works manually not being considered.

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I've been experimenting with creating image datasets via Stable Diffusion, then training StyleGAN2, and compositing in After Effects. It's a new mode of art creation for me that I cannot recreate otherwise. https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops/

One video brought me memory of Autechre - Gantz Graf music video (warning, hard IDM style ;) [0]. It was made manually in 2002, per Wikipedia: "Rutterford also stated that there was no generative element to the imagery; every three-dimensional object in the agglomeration was painstakingly and manually synchronised with a specific element or frequency range within the track" [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3vENli7wQ

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantz_Graf

This is some truly amazing art. I kept reading one post after another of yours.

Very cool!

I wonder if this could be merged with the work done to build music from inverted FFT’s to do Aphex Twin type visualization, or alternatively visualizations through oscilloscope music like Jarobeam Fenderson.

This takes me back to the demo scene days. Seeing something that’s both a technical and artistic achievement that could only have been borne out of the cutting edge. Thanks, awesome stuff.

Awesome! It reminds me of time-lapse movies in developmental biology, showing, for example, the various shapes an organism has as it develops.

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