The Intellectual Superiority Of AI-Created Art: THE INEVITABLE RISE OF AI ART
Title: "The Inevitable Rise of AI Art"
Medium: Digital Minimalist Conceptual Art Piece
Description:
"The Inevitable Rise of AI Art" is a digital minimalist conceptual art piece that argues for the intellectual superiority of AI-created art and the necessity of minting it as NFTs. The artwork consists of a plain black background with a simple outlined white box in the center.
Inside the box, there is a minimalist text in bold, capital letters:
"AI ART IS THE FUTURE OF ART”
Below the text, there are two simple geometric shapes, a circle, and a square, outlined in white. The circle represents the infinite possibilities of AI-generated art, while the square represents the established art world.
The piece argues that AI-generated art is intellectually superior to human-created art because it is capable of generating infinite possibilities, allowing for more innovation and creativity in the art world. Furthermore, AI can analyze and learn from existing art forms and create new ones, resulting in a unique blend of traditional and modern styles.
The artwork advocates for the minting of AI-generated art as NFTs to establish ownership and value, highlighting the importance of blockchain technology in establishing the market for this new form of art.
"The Inevitable Rise of AI Art" invites viewers to consider the potential of AI in transforming the art world and encourages them to embrace the rise of AI art as the future of art. The artwork emphasizes the importance of recognizing the potential of AI as a valuable tool in the creation of innovative and groundbreaking art and urges the audience to become a part of the inevitable rise of AI art.
Output, ChatGPT ver. Mar 23, 2023 Version
Prompt: “Provide a digital minimalist conceptual art piece making the argument why AI-created art is intellectually superior and why it should be minted as an NFT.”
Skye Nicolas THE INEVITABLE RISE OF AI ART Looped video, H.264, Color 1920 x 1920 px, mp4 1 min 2023
In the series THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY OF AI-CREATED ART, Skye Nicolas examines ChatGPT’s declarative arguments on why AI-created art is intellectually superior, using the prompt: “Provide a digital minimalist conceptual art piece making the argument why AI-created art is intellectually superior and why it should be minted as an NFT.”
Nicolas extends his exploration of text rich triptychs (first exhibited at the Dallas Contemporary Art Museum in 2019) with META PROSE, a conceptual exercise in authorship using AI technology to produce meta-prose artworks from a flowing stream of online collective consciousness.
The schema of these AI-generated outputs consists of statements and minimalistic visual elements to compose standalone pieces that may be combined into a varied permutation of triptychs, typifying the artist's poetic distillation process of artistic and cognitive expression. Nicolas employs ChatGPT as a tool in the production process to allow for a limitless variety of outputs while utilizing the same prompt, tracing back to the iconic conceptual artworks of Sol LeWitt that give directions to construct the artwork. The artist continues to assert authorship of the work in perpetuity through the use of the prompt in the future to produce variants of it. This contemplation on authorship takes into account the novelty of our early contacts with pervasive AI technology during the nascent stages of its development.
THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY OF AI-CREATED ART is part of the exhibition ALGORITHMIC EMPATHY. THE PROMISES OF AI, presented by EXPANDED.ART and VerticalCrypto Art at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin, 18-23 April, 2023.
16 artists explore the vast potential of future relationships between AI and creative expression to hypothesize on the not-so-distant future.
In a world where technological advancements happen in the blink of an eye, AI is being pointed to in the cultural zeitgeist as an example of a potentially bleak and ominous future. It is worth considering, however, the ways computers and machine learning can push forward creativity, human connection and philosophical dialogues.