“The Metaverse and the Potential Impact of AI on Painting and Drawing: A Comparison of Applications and Aesthetics in New Media and Contemporary Practice” presented by Devrome
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Session Title:
- AI Impact on Media Art and Culture (pictorials/visual essays)
Presentation Title:
- The Metaverse and the Potential Impact of AI on Painting and Drawing: A Comparison of Applications and Aesthetics in New Media and Contemporary Practice
Presentation Subtheme:
- Speculative practices
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The representation of space in painting and drawing has undergone significant evolution with the incorporation of visual aesthetics found in new media and digital technology, expanding our understanding of perspectival space in the 21st century. This paper examines the spatial aesthetics of AI-generated images based on text input and new media prompts, examining how the potential impact of these images on postmodernist approaches affects the reading of space. What is clear is that the chance element in AI generates multiplicity, and originality is becoming increasingly ambiguous and surreal. Text-based AI images have the capacity to transform how the space of the plane is read in post-modern painting and drawing.
A comparison of early manual scanning methods with text-based AI imagery demonstrates the impact on physicality in the picture plane. The chance element in AI-generated imagery is discussed in relation to media technology processes that retain aesthetic integrity through human input. Text-based AI applications output multiple images based on instructions, and the originality of the output is speculative. The images reviewed are based on memory and recollection and concern how the algorithms induce a sense of metaphysicality within an image.
Text-based AI image generators can blur and distort the original form, and with continued use, the origins of the original may be irrevocably lost. In the case of painting and drawing, the tacit application of physicality is analysed. Finally, the metaverse has become an alternate field that is very different from the one understood in high abstraction and the use of perspectival space in painting. The retranslation of space and time through machine manipulation impacts the essence of form as projected in real time.
