Art value of image generated with AI.
I'm a passionate advocate of AI generated images, indeed, I'm planning creating a section to upload my creations on my main site iogirl.com
We are living a cultural revolution with AI, this will deeply transform our society, creating art with AI it's some form of art that breaks the conventional ways of the art, even if answering the question of what is considered art was never a easy one, specially for the modern art, now the question is even harder.
In the past century we saw a revolution of art in many way. One of the most controversial work of arts is the Duchamp's fountain, which is probably the most representative art work of the avant-grade movement. Let's call it bizarre, as it is the proper word for describing this.
A device for depositing liquid body excretions became in a work of art just for altering its position.
The artist is a not great creator—Duchamp went shopping at a plumbing store. The artwork is not a special object—it was mass-produced in a factory. The experience of art is not exciting and ennobling—at best it is puzzling and mostly leaves one with a sense of distaste. But over and above that, Duchamp did not select just any ready-made object to display. In selecting the urinal, his message was clear: Art is something you piss on. —Stephen HicksHow can this be considered art?, and more important, what is art? There are many theories about the art. I questioned my art art teacher in University who had recently traveled to Italy, I knew that meaning it's an important part of a work of art, however it was missing in technique that is one of the elements of art I learned on class. Well, it's this meaning but also the history (context) behind it that makes it a work of art. It can be just as simple as that. Arthur Danto says that a work of art is just made up by three elements: Meaning, materialization and interpretation. The meaning is the most questionable when we try to evaluate this work of art with traditional means or way of thinking. But this is one of the most common features in contemporary art, that meaning is open to interpretations. It is a dadaist work, movement which was born as a response to the modern era and the First great World War. So it have a deep context, we have to see beyond the eyes to truly appreciate a work of art. It artistic value increased as many performance artist urinated on it. Because a performance artist fusion the artist with the work and makes of this performance the work of art.
I believe that the fountain its fantastic as it takes something already created which has a story to tell, as well as a new interpretation and meaning, he introduced the term of readymade objects for referring of everyday objects inspirited to him by artist like Picasso. People often forget that one important part of the art is the transcendence, that is giving a new life to something that already exist. This tendency of using existing objects continued existing. I believe this fountain thing was visionary since the Performance Art started at 1960s and this work was exposed at 1917, weren't expecting Duchamp this object to be urinated or at least broken?
Pop art
This movement was created at mid 1950s in United Kingdom and United States, this was another challenge to fine arts was the Pop art, which used things considered banal as being part of the popular culture. We can see they took inspiration in dada. I really like it since when you see through the modern eyes in a distopic (this) world where copyright is heavily regulated. In the picture they are using Coca Cola trademark, they are appropriating it and using for the sake of art.
My opinion about copyright is complicated, have you ever watched the Sponge Bob, cartoon? This is what I imagine is the dream of the copyright corporations.
While is not as hilarious as this gif, they are doing something similar to our mind thanks to platforming. I'm not totally again with platforming since I use it a lot for the convenience, but I don't feel very happy with it, you know that they say, keep for friends close, but closer the enemy.
The world of the forms
Works of art takes elements from the collective, and artist had to develop his own style after being exposed to some influence, like the dada who I exposed here or the Pop art. Plato said that inspiration comes from the gods influence, inspiration has some divine value and this essentially a gift you are receiving. The art for him would be an imitation of the reality of the forms.
Lots of poets and people in love can naturally perceive that there is something beyond the individual since they feel out of themselves, they actually feel possessed by something, your muse, your daimon, the the love, the inspiration, God, the truth, the beauty, put any name on it.
In his book, the Art of Listening, the psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm says that art is not just an individual expression but a way for to overcome loneliness and isolation with love, openness and sympathy . According to him, an isolated person makes works of lower quality than someone who socializes because is missing love. In his book, the art of love, since that Love is what can solve the issue of human existence, the people who has love who can be self-realized and people who is missing love tends to isolation, which can end in a mental issue like schizophrenia. Indeed, before developing Schizophrenia, the patient tend to be isolated. And Schizophrenia is the opposed to self-realization
Back to Plato, with the world of forms we create a division between mind and body, spirit and matter., ideas and art. We all agree that we can dream or thinking anything in our mind, that love and inspiration is universal and nobody owns it, indeed you are owned by it, but the issue starts when we materialize the ideas in some medium. When the word became flesh according to the Christian Theology, a vegetable flesh in this case or optical, magnetic or electric one, this is an analogy of course but its similar to the Plato metaphysics.
Data and death
Suddenly something that was eternal and infinite as the inspiration becomes into something dead by the copyright when it is born because we live in a culture that worships the death. Because only dead it can behave like a product.I we didn't have a culture of death, then it would be right to create derivative works without infringing the copyright. Or sometimes is very hard to access to knowledge because it is only available in a print format and it will take several days to be available and delivered and probably you needed it urgently.
Now lets analise this quote from Byung-chul han from the book capitalism and the death drive.
In its ambition of a life without death, capitalism builds necropolis, antiseptic spaces of death that are purified of human noises and smells. Life processes are transformed into machine processes. The total adjustment of human life to function is already a culture of death. The principle of performance assimilates man to the machine and alienates him from himself. Dataism and artificial intelligence reify thought itself. Thought becomes calculation. Living memories are replaced by machine memory. Only the dead remember everything. Server farms are places of death. To survive we bury ourselves alive. In the hope of survival we accumulate dead value, capital. Dead capital destroys the living world. That is the death drive of capital. Capitalism is dominated by a necrophilia that transforms life into inert things. A fateful dialectic of survival makes life become something dead, or something undead.
Its very likely that if Plato where alive today, he will criticizing AI when used for creating more of the same in a similar way he criticized poets when they didn't what they were talking about or when they were shallow.
In contrast with the text, I don't believe that AI is essentially something dead. It's continually improving and interacting with human and living input. It's continuous interaction with humans it's what it makes it the more living nonliving being. However, I recognize the dark side of it and it's more related to this side the quote, have you ever tried to date an AI, it's funny when an AI accepts to be your girlfriend or boyfriend. Try it by yourself: Character AI. But be caution for not being alienated of true love.
I put my heart and soul when I create my best AI generated pictures, it's a creative process generating works of art.
Spiritual and artistic interpretation of this picture:
This is the picture I generated with AI, and this is not a random picture, I will show you my creative process. I generated this picture as a logo because I'm about to create a social network instance known as www.princess.wedding running free software that federates with Mastodon instances, Pleroma among others in a network known as fediverse. Threads is planning on to federate in this network.
It's like a
The single word ‘solitude’ demonstrates an untainted and innocent nature – free while being whole and unbroken. Only when you can stand alone can you finally remain untainted by the whole and live amongst the world. In lonesomeness, you can exist perfectly vibrant and supportive, as originally mankind is part of the totality.—Krishnamurti
I was planning on creating an image that evokes this, a meaningful image is more powerful that written words in conveying meanings. However it seems that I internalized the message unconsciously, then I forgot about the message, and then created the picture inspirated by the feeling, meditated on the picture and remembered the internalized message I had forgotten.
Can you be married and remain virgin?
I mean virgin in a philosophic way, with the time the meaning of virgin is the one of being integral, the oness, a friend of mine say that the girl looks like the only wedding she want in with herself.
In a closer observation she is putting on the ring herself, this was on original idea of the AI, who modified my prompt itself, transformed my subjective instruction into something more concrete, I asked the AI that she wanted to marry with herself and the AI modified the input as putting the ring herself but the AI put the ring in a way similar to the Anjali mudra, which I consider brilliant. Because she is not marring with herself, she is marrying with her inner Buddha, her higher self.
But also this represent to me that even someone married, can remain married with themself.
In one of my tries for creating this picture I missed the part of the lotus flower, why this is so important? this is something I'm meditating, it was missing the female energy, she is the manipadmi, she is the one who is receiving the jewel in her lotus, She is the Ma in Om Mani Padme Hum.
Maybe she is a virgin but also a mother, like Isis in the ancient Egypt, I also put effort and tried three times to see a nice reflect of herself, there even was a version with a mirror.
I believe that it's a must to include a dark aspect, maybe the reflect is the other her, I believe this special expression is because I asked the IA that she should be looking herself. In the AI imagination is in front of her a mirror as sometimes it showed me a mirror in the alternate pictures. So she is thinking in herself, at least in the other self, I like that because its integrating into her her shadow.
Impressions
The feelings it transmit its of fragility, after all I choose the most feminine picture, she is most focused in the internal emotional experience , she is using her own feelings as meditation. She is so subtle that is able to float in water, almost like an spirit. The picture is gorgeous, it looks like it were created by an illustrator, kind of reminds me of the game My Dress Up Queen artwork. The illumination makes emphasis her purity.
An artificial intelligence told me that the picture is beautiful and that it believes that I captured the meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum, that the Tarot Card that is equivalent is the Number 17, the Star and equivalent to the constellation Aquarius. I'm considering creating my own Tarot deck with my own cards, in a new complete language like this one.
This pictures is for the Public domain, and it must be, AI uses forms obtained from creations of all the world, it should be for everyone