May 25, 2023

Drawn live at North Fourth Art Center in Albuquerque:

OTHER

AI

Matt Wolfe on YouTube let me know that on May 23rd, Latent Labs released a Text-to-3D program, which one has to use from Discord (like we do with Midjourney), which allows like 5 free 3D AI generations.  

Twitter gives a link to the Discord invite:

I generated a 3D javelina on Discord

using the Latent Labs program

• Download the javelina.OBJ file (2.63 MB)

I downloaded the OBJ file from Latent Labs

and opened it in the 3D Viewer in Windows

• AI is now included in Photoshop

• DragGAN  (YouTube video:  New AI Research: DragGAN - Pose Characters with AI)

• SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation (CVPR 2023)

PRINTING

Adam at Quelab refurbished a Roland VersaCAMM VS-540 print and cut printer:

Then he printed and die-cut 8 stickers for me, of AI Origami animals that I had generated with Midjourney back in November 2022.  We just downloaded the images directly from the Internet and imported them in to Adobe Illustrator, without enhancing the resolution. 

AI generated origami animals,

printed and cut at Quelab

on the Roland Print and Cut printer

Adam then printed and cut some AI images he generated in Midjourney.  Those colors seemed a little more vibrant than my origami animals, but they seemed fluorescent to begin with:

AI images generated in Midjourney

printed and cut

EXHIBITIONS

Julianna Kirwin had an opening at the Fusion Art Space on May 

Julianna Kirwin 

in front of her prints

Ellie Weadock

admiring Julianna Kirwin's print

Julianna Kirwin 

at the Fusion Art Space

YouTube video

of Julianna Kirwin

Chandler Wigton has a a show at EXHIBIT 208 in Albuquerque:

Exhibit 208 

gallery in Albuquerque

Chandler Wigton curated the Ambos Lados exhibition, with Lacey Chrisco, at the Inpost Space of the Outpost Performance in Albuquerque in 2022:

Chandler Wigton

making at print at the Ambos Lados opening

which he co-curated

He also had a painting in the New American Painting book/magazine.

• The University of Arizona Art Museum is setting up a Gallery Talk for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in September sometime.