Artists Utilize Artificial Intelligence to Produce Artistic Masterpieces
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In the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, Professor Rebecca Xu is revolutionising the way artists use technology to express themselves. Through her course, AI in Creative Practice, Xu emphasises that artificial intelligence serves as a supportive tool, aiding artists in gaining insights and expanding their creative potential.
Xu's research focuses on how AI can enhance the creative process for various art forms. She uses AI as a tool for generating ideas and inspiration in her animation classes, and her animated work "Péripéties: Fragile Sovereignties" has been featured in national and international exhibitions.
One of Xu's students, Mohamed Keita, created artwork using AI in her course. Another student, Adam Hazem, produced work that was showcased in this article. AI can help students in the preproduction phase of animation by offering inspiration and possible directions to explore.
The invention of the camera, similar to AI, shook up the art world and helped artists create new ways to express themselves. Art is always about self-expression, regardless of the media used, such as camera, paintbrush, clay, or computer software and AI. Content and how one communicates through their art is the most important thing.
Xu's course combines hands-on experiences with AI tools and critical thinking about the creative and ethical implications of using AI. She encourages the use of AI as a collaboration tool in the creative fields, but traditional art forms retain their own values. AI offers useful tools for learning technical skills in the production phase of animation, but the final work should be original.
Xu believes that AI can be another tool for creative practices. She wants to teach her students to use AI to their advantage, to augment their creative process, rather than replacing their artistic agency. AI can open up new ways to create, teach, and experience art.
Xu's work will be featured in the upcoming International Joint Conference on AI in Montreal. Her approach emphasises that AI's role in the arts is to enhance creativity, motivate exploration, and serve as an interactive tool that supports experiential learning and creative growth, rather than supplanting human creativity.
Artificial intelligence, leveraged by Professor Rebecca Xu in her course AI in Creative Practice, serves as a supportive tool for artists to gain insights and expand their creative potential. Xu's animated work "Péripéties: Fragments of Sovereignties" showcases the application of AI in generating ideas and inspiration for various art forms, including animation.
