As I have mentioned before, working with AI as a tool in my practice is an entirely new concept to me. It is an aspect technical work that I am not familiar with, however since starting this project I have been able to gather a basic understanding of how existing practitioners are engaging with AI creatively, within a conscious format.
Leading up to this project I have been continually more interested in working with specialised technical elements, creating both visual and sonic work through these applications.
Through using PureData and beginning to learn other software such as Arduino, I find myself more and more excited and inspired to create work within these realms. Because of this, I am not surprised that the production of both sonic and visual work using AI interests me. The knowledge, and the people, that circulate both the technical software and the AI-driven domains are interdisciplinary and often correspond between the two. Meaning, there is a widespread community of practitioners to learn and communicate with.
The expansive potential of working with AI as a tool and other digitally based programmes is both stimulating and slightly formidable, there are so many ways in which you can use them, I find I often get lost in the possibilities. This is something, I will say, that this project has helped improve, through looking at other practitioners I feel more directed in ways I would like to work, and what I want to achieve from doing so.
I am able to envision many ways in which I can expand upon on previous projects and begin new ones, intertwining new and old skills. I want to use the knowledge I have gained from this project to begin working on a piece that is both visually and sonically exciting. Although I have been focused on sonic practices for this project, I also want to widen my knowledge on visual aspects, looking at artists who are using technology to create original, innovative visual works. This is something I am definitely more aware of, without having to look as deep, I know of practitioners working in this way as they appear to me more through networks of social media. Instagram especially, informs me about new artists as their short video works appear on my feed regularly. I find this to be huge inspiration due the eclectic exposure of visual media I see daily.
Here are a couple of examples:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYEtR_fMa-4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXlOn-rCNLX/utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRgeEQ4kRAF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Recently I have also begun teaching myself Touch Designer and I think this is a great gateway into combining both my visual and sonic works together. It gives me a platform to use both elements as the centre piece in an immersive way, therefore really engaging my new found interests. As I begin to take this further, I am able to envision ways in which all the independent elements of my passions come together, and I feel enthusiast about my work to come.