AI and Art - Anne Spalter Offers Perspective
A new brush for artists?
“We’re living in the future where it’s normal that you type in text and get images. Kids are now going to do this, and they are not going to remember a time when they didn’t type in text and get images…The camera didn’t make everyone an artist. Everyone has a phone. Everyone takes photos. They are not photographers. But we all benefit from having that capability,” said Anne Spalter.
I invited Anne to speak at Synthedia because she is an artist. Full stop. That’s what she does for a living, and she’s been doing it for decades. Anne also created a collection of 501 “AI Spaceships” using Night Cafe earlier this year. In an hour, the collection was sold out.
To create the collection, Anne typed in 501 prompts, and there was a lot of trial and error early in the process before she started on the final pieces. She had to concept, refine, tweak the prompts, tweak them again, and curate the final collection. Since then, Anne has had a physical world show that showed creations using Dall-E, Midjourney, and other solutions.
Everyday Uses for AI
I think you will enjoy the recorded interview above. She offers a couple of pro tips for using image generators, and you get a real sense of how a working artist views the technology. AI image generators are part new brushes and part much more than that. Anne even weighs in on the Midjourney-created artwork that won the top prize in the digital category at the 2022 Colorado State Fair.
The other takeaway from the interview with Anne is how practical these solutions are. Whether it’s virtual humans, text generators, or image generators, there are many practical, everyday applications. That is the type of formula that often leads to rapid mass adoption.
