Artificial Intelligence in Computational Art and Design
MD&C
On my exchange to Simon Fraser University, I followed the course Artificial Intelligence in Computational Art and Design. During the course I got to dive deeper into how different machine learning algorithms worked, and did a design research project with a generative AI.
Throughout the course we got lectures on AI and the machine learning behind it. We for example discussed how GANs or Neural Networks worked, and how they were – at that time – being applied in art and tech, for example DALL-E was getting big around the time. For the research part of the course I performed a literature study into the use of AI in the fashion and fashion-tech field. I discuss the use of AI in fashion creation as we know it, where I distinguished different types of GANs which support fashion designers in the designing of garments. After this I also discuss the use of AI in our fashion expression, so how we express ourselves though fashion to the outs world. Although there were examples of diffusion models and CLIP being used here, again, most literature and exampled were based on GANs. Writing this paper was an interesting way of broadening my knowledge on fashion-tech, and deepen my knowledge on AI and how the algorithms work.
Additionally everyone in the course did a project with AI. As I got intrigued by my paper, my project discussed fashion expression though AI in the physical world. Over the course of a few weeks, I generated backgrounds for my pone, tablet and laptop which matched my outfit, and discussed this with people – an example can be seen in the images above. It was the first time working with an AI creatively and at the core of my project, where I also used the AI as creative tool, and did not just program something and look at the results. Itook away the barrier for me to use AI in my own projects (although I did not have the change to yet).
