Combined
VQGAN+CLIP AI (Video)
“I wanted to see what happens when you give a image, photo, still from a film or a painting and ask a AI software how to reach it, to create it themselves. Using VQGAN and CLIP image generating software and setting stills from Dream as the image prompt and text from the original as text prompts, I want to see how an AI software can devise and create an adaptation of Dream. I put the image of the actors in their body suits and typed in text prompts that related to the production, ie Puck, Fireflies, Mushrooms, Magic, Portsmouth Guildhall. AI can offer unexpected alternatives to design but can also cause problems. The vast library of images the AI uses to construct these new images tends to be rooted in websites or photo hosting websites that have been developed by predominantly white teams which means a lot of the images just tend to be white dudes doing menial tasks or vintage archived images which historically have only been catered towards white audiences. It’s it’s being fed just white faces, it’ll only churn out white faces.”