If you have encountered me online before, you might know that I love to explore different avenues of self-expression. So, when I discovered the tool known as AI art, I fell instantly in love. My dabblings have shown me that many, many other people have the same exciting experience with this technology that I have (I’ll share my feelings below). I’m also finding it fascinating that the trend is causing a huge controversy among other types of artists, as well as people who seem to be against artificial intelligence altogether, or do not understand it.
And so I’ve felt compelled to ponder, philosophize and write about why I think this technological advancement is important to our collective future. I’ll cut right to the chase here: New art tools expand the reach of creative flow to more humans, enabling them to feel empowerment and worthiness. That’s the bottom line, in my opinion.
I consider my personal AI art production to be an ever-evolving representation of the present moment, generated from a collaboration between my emotions, my skills and these innovative art tools. My intention is to create images that activate expansive feelings of uniqueness within the viewer, grounding these energies into the matrix field of humanity to uplift and empower the collective.
One of my favorite aspects of this new way to produce art is that I have found community within this field, which is always a good thing. I was able to share my thoughts about AI art with a delightful person named Chippy, who created a newsletter for people like me, called Humans of Generative Art. You can read my interview with him here, though some of what I stated therein is reproduced below. Honestly, I feel like I could write a book on the topic of AI art. For now, I’ll focus on the first blush of ephiphanic data I received in relation to it.
Several days after I first immersed myself in this new AI art world, I literally couldn’t sleep until I had written down the following thoughts, which allowed me to process my emotions and organize my feelings in response to some social posts I’d seen about “traditional” artists being threatened by AI.
Value of art. Exchange of energy and balance between creator and observer. What is the value to each side? What is it worth when an idea is translated to the material world? To the creator it is the experience of being a channel, a vessel. It lasts as long as it takes to unfold from vision to completion. It could be minutes or decades. It’s a freely given experience to the creator, a gift from the universe and self, requiring only the tools to bring it to life, and momentum. It can be the result of a happy accident or a cathartic process. It can be unnoticed or triggering, celebrated, criticized or analyzed ad nauseum. For the observer it is the experience of a feeling or thought in response. Both are giving birth to a new energy form, having been impregnated with inspiration, tapping into a previously unseen river of possibilities. For the observer, the experience could also last milliseconds or decades. Time and space are elastic. This is also true when the creation of art is made possible in collaboration with a 4D manifestation tool of “artificial intelligence.” Anyone can create a body of work in minutes that would previously have taken a lifetime to produce, acclimating us to instant manifestation. Does the speed of creation negate the value of expansion received by the observer? That is his choice alone.
I’m grateful to call myself a digital creator of New Earth, and I fully support the embracing of AI art tools in the modern world. Creativity is for the masses, and so-called artificial intelligence is a stepping stone in our journey toward the instant manifestation of our desire to experience a better world.
Crystal Spirited 