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AI Body Images and the Meta-Human: On the Rise of AI-generated Avatars for Mixed Realities and the Metaverse.
Scorzin, Pamela C. (2023) , S. 179-194
In this paper, I discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on contemporary visual culture, mainly on the human (body) imagery and the forming of AI avatar design for social media and beyond, i.e., for mixed realities and the Metaverse. What kind of representations of humans does Artificial Intelligence generate? I use AI imagery as an umbrella term, including prompt engineering. What do algorithmic images created by contemporary AI image generators like Midjourney, DALL·E 2, or Stable Diffusion, among others, represent? What kind of reality do they depict? And to which ideologies and contemporary body concepts do they refer? Moreover, we can observe a visual paradox herein: The more realistic the AI images created by GANs and Diffusion models within AI image generators now appear, the less clear becomes their reference to reality and any truth content. However, what synthetic images created by intelligent algorithms depict is seen as something other than unreal and fictitious since what becomes visible refers to information minted from the metadata of vast amounts of circulating images (on the internet). Making the invisible visible and distributing it via digital platforms becomes the act of communicating with AI images that ‘inform’ and affect their recipients by creating real resonance. The timeline of this new photo-based imaging technology points more to the future than to the present and past. Thus, AI images as meta-images can represent a different form or level of reality in a simulated photo-realistic style that functions as effective visual rhetoric for globally networked communities of the present. Moreover, in the age of cooperation and co-creation between man and machine within complex networks, the designing process can now start just with the command line prompt “/imagine” (Midjourney) – transforming the following text/ekphrases into an operative means of design/artistic productions. AI images are thus also operative images turning into a new technology-based visual language emerging from a large technological network. As networked images and meta-images, they can fabricate and fabulate the meta-human.
AI Image Media through the Lens of Art and Media History
Manovich, Lev (2023) , S. 34-41
I’ve been using computer tools for art and design since 1984 and have already seen a few major visual media revolutions, including the development of desktop media software and photorealistic 3D computer graphics and ani- mation, the rise of the web after, and later social media sites and advances in computational photography. The new AI ‘generative media’ revolution appears to be as significant as any of them. Indeed, it is possible that it is as significant as the invention of photography in the nineteenth century or the adoption of linear perspective in western art in the sixteenth. In what follows, I will discuss four aspects of AI image media that I believe are particularly significant or novel. To better understand these aspects, I situate this media within the context of visual media and human visual arts history, ranging from cave paintings to 3D computer graphics.
Fuzzy Ingenuity: Creative Potentials and Mechanics of Fuzziness in Processes of Image Creation with AI-Based Text-to-Image Generators
Feyersinger, Erwin; Kohmann, Lukas; Pelzer, Michael (2023) , S. 135-149
This explorative paper focuses on fuzziness of meaning and visual rep- resentation in connection with text prompts, image results, and the mapping between them by discussing the question: How does the fuzziness inherent in artificial intelligence-based text-to-image generators such as DALL·E 2, Midjour- ney, or Stable Diffusion influence creative processes of image production – and how can we grasp its mechanics from a theoretical perspective? In addressing these questions, we explore three connected interdisciplinary approaches: (1) Text-to-image generators give new relevance to Hegel’s notion of language as ‘the imagination which creates signs’. They reinforce how language itself inevitably acts as a meaning-transforming system and extend the formative dimension of language with a technology-driven facet. (2) From the perspective of speech act theory, we discuss this explorative interaction with an algorithm as performative utterances. (3) In further examining the pragmatic dimension of this interac- tion, we discuss the creative potential arising from the visual feedback loops it includes. Following this thought, we show that the fuzzy variety of images which DALL·E 2 presents in response to one and the same text prompt contributes to a highly accelerated form of externalized visual thinking.

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