I submitted my AI warped pencil drawing to the AIKPHRASIS project, organized and conceived by Holly Grimm. "Aikphrasis" is the AI (artificial intelligence) spin on "Ekphrasis." This is my visual response to the poem she gave me written with AI using GPT-3.
The AI Poem
(written with GPT-3)
I can’t see the figure or the table or the mirror
beyond, or the light or what’s casting the light. I
really can’t bring this into focus: everything is motion,
everything kind of moving around itself. It’s just like a
polaroid that you’ve got to hold super still under the light and press. If you let it go, everything will just blur.
The figure is in there somewhere, just kind of disappearing
and then appearing again. It’s somewhere in there: it’s
a white dot. It’s all through there. There’s this sense of,
there’s a ghost world and a real world and they’re both in
here. The bird’s in here I think, flying around.
***
FOUNDATION IMAGE
The poem evoked the space of
Roberto Matta, one of my favorite painters. Thus I started with one of my black and white pencil drawings and altered it in
Deep Dream Generator, a free online AI program by Google. What better way to answer AI than with AI?
The foundation image,
one of my black and white pencil drawings
Then I animated with a few ephemeral birds. The second bird was generated in
Runway ML by StyleGAN2 (
another AI program), partially in my drawing style, and faded in using
EZGif. I documented the
long drawn out process on this blog.
Title: aiK*RЯR*Lsis
Medium: Pencil, warped by AI
Instagram: @Krrrl
