Making AI Art More Accessible with Narrative and Whimsy
, Artist, Artonomous
AI Art often intimidates the audience with technical talk about things like resolution, latent space, and number of layers in the neural network. The problem is that audiences typically lose interest in things they don't understand. Rather than spend the time to understand the complexities of AI Art, they can't relate and decide it's boring. The way to overcome this is with whimsy and narrative, which is what the bitGANs are all about. The bitGANs are an AI Art project that describes the emergence of bitGANs — generative adversarial network (GAN)-generated creatures that dance around as they attempt to escape the GPU they were born in and make it into the physical world. We'll describe the bitGANs and the importance of connecting with an audience through narrative. See the running narrative at bitgans.com.