Friday 30 August 2019

Artificial Intelligence Serigraph Collaboration-- at Taller 75 Grados

Manuel Guerra and I collaborated on a serigraph print at Taller 75 Grados in Mexico City, during the second week of August in 2019.


Final collaborative serigraph print





The serigraph was printed in two phases -- first, printing the artificial intelligence altered drawing from 3 color separation screens; and then superimposing the black original line figure drawing over that.

First we printed out my drawing after it was doctored in artificial intelligence (Google's Deep Dream Generator program).  I had uploaded all the high resolution files in a previous blog post, which could then be downloaded in Mexico.



Taller 75 Grados then color separated the artificial intelligence result, and printed the image in cyan-yellow-magenta oil based inks -- the 4th black screen was reserved for printing the original line drawing.  

The original unaltered, line drawing was printed last, in black (with a little transparent base), superimposed over the Deep Dream colored drawing.  We needed to bring out the human figure in this way, as the alterations of the artificial intelligence program obscured the  original image too much.


(before being altered in Deep Dream Generator),
which was silk screened over the 
colored artificial intelligence altered drawing


Normally I use Photoshop to revive the image.  I superimpose and fade the original black drawing on top of the version colored by artificial intelligence.  

Later Manuel Guerra added a hand drawn halo to the final serigraph image.


Two "negatives" --
One of the 3 colors, 
and original line drawing (right),
to be printed on top of the colored print,
in black


An individual "negative" was produced,
for each of the three colors --
cyan, magenta, and yellow


Each color negative was separately
exposed to a screen


Two of the 3 color "negatives"
burned into one screen


Printing the magenta color


Maestro Arturo Negrete
looks at the stack
with the first colored printed 





Ultimately yellow was screen printed,
to give a full color version



Then the original line drawing
was silk screened in black
on top of the full colored image



With, and without black --
the finished print to the left
has the original line drawing
printed on top of the colors


Full production mode




The first phase --
with the original black line drawing,
printed on top of the cym(not k) colored variation
produced by artificial intelligence


 MANUEL GUERRA 
COLLABOR
ATION

After viewing the first phase, Manuel Guerra decided to draw an Aztec green halo around the head of the figure. 

Envisioned in the computer


A real sized template is printed out,
and placed on top of the screen print


Manuel Guerra hand drew the Aztec dragon


Then Manuel hand drew the green background,
behind the Aztec dragon


Both the drawings on transparent paper--
of the Aztec dragon and the green background,
placed over the actual sized figure drawing


Both the drawings --
of the Aztec dragon and the green background,
were burned into a screen



A bit of red color 
was added to the green background,
to dull it slightly


First the green background was printed



Then the Aztec dragon was printed


Manuel Guerra signing the final edition


Krrrl (me)
signing the final edition





SANTA FE EXHIBITION

A previous Photoshop print of my altered drawing (without the Manuel Guerra collaboration), was printed out digitally, and submitted to the "Shakespeare On the Wall" exhibition in Santa Fe, which opened on August 23rd, 2019, at "A Gallery Somewhere."



"We Know What We Are, But Not What We May Be"


Update:

Two serigraphs were donated to the fundraisers for the El Paso shooting victims -- one to the Roderick Arts Center, and the other to Galeria Cinco Puntos in El Paso.  The exhibitions were August 10 - 11, 2019.

The serigraph was also shown in Tucson at Raices Taller for the "Collaborations" exhibition, September 14 - October 21st, 2019.

Hanging at Raices Taller in Tucson







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