Keep Running-AI Paintings of Horse Figure and Portrait

James She, Carmen Ng, Wadia Sheng

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Abstract

"Keep Running"is a collection of human and machine generated paintings using a generative adversarial network technology. The horse artworks are produced during the lockdown period in the Middle East due to the Covid-19. Many recent AI artworks are either generated in photo-realistic style, or abstract style with distorted faces, fragmented figures and a combination of unknown objects. Besides the cultural and historic symbols that horses represent in this region, what's unique with our work is showing the possibility of using AI to create horse paintings with distinguishable features and forms, while still rendering different aesthetic and even sentimental expressions in the horse paintings. Our first artwork is a series of storytelling-like paintings of an evolving horse figure in motion with changing backgrounds. Another one is a set of different horse portrait paintings that are presented in a grid with each of them evolved and generated stylishly from the same yet repeated machine processes. Our AI artworks are not just artistic and meaningful, but also paying a salute to the early works of machine-assisted art by Eadweard Muybridge and Andy Warhol, for their influences to the art world today.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMM 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages4403-4404
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450379885
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Oct 2020
Event28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 12 Oct 202016 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameMM 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Conference

Conference28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/10/2016/10/20

Keywords

  • AI art
  • grid
  • horse
  • painting
  • stylegan

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