In the field of Creative AI there is a strong interest in exploring Artificial Intelligence as a tool, a medium and even as an artistic partner to augment human creativity.
In my work as Director of Cueva Gallery, the first online gallery in Ireland dedicated to artworks made or inspired by AI, I have the opportunity to speak with many artists and immerse myself in their creative world.
Today, I will introduce you to an artistic and research project called The Augmented Artist from Fabin Rasheed. He is a Creative Technologist, Designer, and Artist based in Bengaluru, India, who works at the intersection of Creativity and Technology. In his works, Rasheed uses a wide variety of technology like AI, AR/VR, Generative arts etc. and focuses on finding new ways of expressing creativity.
The Augmented Artist is, first of all, a research art project where the artist investigates how AI can inspire humans. Starting from the analysis of how a thought is generated, through the filters of Freud’s free association theory, Rasheed’s work shows that AI can be a seed idea to feed and free human imagination. Together with his colleague Sleeba Paul, he created Auria Kathi, the first Artificially Intelligent poet-artist living completely in the cloud. Auria is a Muse based on machine learning, an artist that posts regularly on Instagram poems and painting to inspire all the human artists who visit her page.
[Fig.1] Image generated by Auria Kathi, credits: Fabin Rasheed
Rasheed has then pushed this project forward and hand-painted six unique pieces. These are physical versions of the AI-generated images produced by the Muse - not a mere remix - but a personal interpretation of the human artist who brings in the work his inner world and life experience.
[Fig. 2] Differential, hand-painted artwork. Credits: Fabin Rasheed.
We had the pleasure to talk to Fabin Rasheed about his art project, and discover much more about his vision and ideas on AI and art.
The full interview is published here.
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