What does your first AI image look like? Opening Art of "Mengsheng AI Image Exhibition" | AI | Image
When artificial intelligence technology is developing rapidly, are works generated using AI art? On August 10th, the "Mengsheng AI Image Exhibition" opened at the N2 Hall of the Shanghai New International Expo Center. This exhibition is also a concentrated display of AI generated images in China, which has positive exploratory significance for exploring the future development of AI images and their impact on photography art.
Lin Hang/Colored Family Album
This AI Image Exhibition has invited representative AI image researchers, practitioners, and creative photographers from the domestic photography industry, as well as six artists including Hai Jie, Shen Zhonghai, Jiang Shu, Wang Lue, Yuan Wen, and Lin Hang to participate. They have their own characteristics in the fields of AI imaging creativity, generation, production, research, etc., which basically represents the current situation in the field of AI imaging.
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In order to enhance the interactivity and experience of the exhibition, a parallel unit was specially designed for this exhibition: "Mengsheng · My First AI Image". The organizer invited 108 people from all walks of life to participate in the production of their first AI image. Some of them download software for practical operation, while others provide keywords and participate with their own imagination. There is also an interactive section at the exhibition site, where visitors can turn their creativity and imagination into reality through AI, and print and create their first AI image on the spot.
Jiang Shu/Water is invisible, trees make sounds
In the process of communicating with over 100 artists, photographers, and curators, curator Ye Mingwen felt that the AI images generated through the interaction of intelligent thinking and creator prompts can easily capture visual surprises, turn imagination into reality, and make impossible possible. Its artistic potential is precisely skilled at creating illusions. "At present, it is difficult to provide an accurate definition of AI imagery, only one thing can be determined: it belongs to non photography, non painting." Ye Mingwen believes that creators and AI have a cooperative relationship, rather than an absolute directive relationship; "Identifying and inducing the creative power of AI, correcting prompts, and collaborating to create AI attribute images that are different from photography, is the only way to make AI a new form of art."
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Fu Weixin/"The Woman Holding a Wolf Bag". This work is a painting from the author's AI imaging project "After Benjamin", depicting the theme of the extinct animal, the wolf bag. This picture is based on Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Girl Holding a Sable".
To further explore the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the art of photography, the organizers also invited industry guests such as Chang He, Hai Jie, Ao Guoxing, and Shen Zhonghai to hold an image salon lecture, interpreting new trends and technologies in the photography and post production industry.
The "Mengsheng AI Image Exhibition" is hosted by the Shanghai Photographers Association and the Shanghai International Trade Promotion Commission, and hosted by Shanghai International Exhibition Co., Ltd. In addition, with the help of the "24th Shanghai International Photography Equipment and Digital Image Exhibition" platform, multiple events have appeared simultaneously, including the "2023 First Hangzhou International Photography Handmade Book Biennale" and the "P&I SH2023 Mobile Image Creation Competition".
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