VS AI Street Fighting by Escher Tsai

VS AI Street Fighting

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VS AI Street Fighting builds upon Midjourney, a highly noticeable AI text-generated image tool at the moment, and creates a creative combat of text-generated images between humans and AI in public space or on the streets. The work poses an essential question: is the creation of AI simply mechanical, and therefore, meaningless and merely imitative? Or does it signal fresh creativity when the complex human imagination and creativity are combined with AI? Adopting the mode of a street combat video game, the work brings the controversial issue regarding the creativity of AI to the streets, transforming a serious topic into a participatory event of street entertainment for the public in a festive mood. Meanwhile, it also highlights the proactive approach of techno art in terms of coping with the rapid changes in the scenes of technology and content production. [VS AI VJING] The brand-new machine offers an innovative way to create visuals—simply move your hands, let the built-in camera capture your gestures, and generate real-time imagery that syncs with the music. You can also shape the visuals by pressing buttons or turning knobs to explore different aesthetic styles, just like a professional VJ. As AI reshapes traditional creative processes, the VJ of the future might look more like a hand model or a performer, using movement and gesture as their medium.

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video games
generative art