In 2014, artist Richard Prince angered some colleagues with an exhibition of blown-up screenshots from Instagram. Now he’d have a new way to challenge audiences. | nickbonyhady
It featured images from other people’s Instagram accounts with comments added by the artist, blown up and displayed on a gallery’s walls. One sold for $US90,000 , triggering outrage from some of the artists and Instagram users whose work Prince had repurposed. A photographer saidSeven years later, Prince has another option to challenge our ideas about what is art and who is an artist. There are now artificial intelligence systems that can create photorealistic images of almost anything.
: do androids dream of electric sheep? The more immediate question is: can they create art and does it matter if they do?Turns out they can be instructed to create a photorealistic image of a raccoon wearing an astronaut’s helmet. Or a robot couple dining in front of the Eiffel Tower. Or an anthropomorphic dragon fruit wearing a kung fu belt in the snow.a powerful AI system developed by Google and unveiled late last month.
to the point he was fired for defending its rights, these systems are not in any danger of becoming conscious. Instead, Google explained, AI tools possess sophisticated algorithms and draw on large datasets to predict a plausible answer, whether visual or text, when supplied with a prompt. Sydney artist Gillian Kayrooz, who often works with digital media, does not feel threatened by her AI rivals. “When you think about what makes an item collectable, it’s attached to an artist and who they are,” Kayrooz says. “That’s what makes something famous, it’s attached to them alongside the work that is delivered to the public.”is a urinal. Tracey Emin exhibited her bed.
She is confident most AI-generated imagery sits on the wrong side of the copyright line – too much machine, too little human creativity. “If you write in: ‘I want a picture of Boris Johnson with fish coming out of his ears’ and it generates a picture that looks like that, that’s interesting in that spectrum I was describing before. It is the human being making choices — I want Boris Johnson, I want fish, I want it in his ears — but the expression really is being generated by the system.