Final Year Project: 'AIM'

Emma Fossick
AI Creates!
A collection of digital and UX design work relating to my final degree project at BCU. The theme of my project was accessibility using technology such as AI to generate and share art.
Introduction
For my final year project have explored creativity and digital technologies. Having adopted digital approaches to my work, I wanted to explore the boundaries of new technology, creativity and design while looking at activism and social issues from the perspective of an artist but also a digital creative. I wanted to explore the role that artificial intelligence plays in the creative process. We have seen in recent years the explosion of AI and new technologies like NFTs and as a creative I have explored how to use and adapt such technology to my work.
Since the advent of desk top printing, the internet and web, artists and designers have adopted and been using new technology. As the web and intent usage has become more common, we have also seen the use of the Web as a place to create, share and show work. The world’s of design and technology have always influenced each other and now we are seeing a new wave of creativity that embraces new procesess, practices and tools that use a range of new technologies in Web 3.0 and the Metaverse.
In this project I set out to design an online digital tool accessed via a website that uses Google Colab’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines. This works by generating a variety of ‘prompts’ and these prompts are then used to generate phrases featuring entities, emotions and colours. The phrase is a description that is passed to another AI engine and this generates an image depending on a set of variables the user can change.
To enable people to easily use this technology I have designed a website and an interface so that I, and other creatives can use Google’s Colab and its AI system to generate two dimensional images.
The system will use online AI systems that are accessible through Google’s Colab called GTP3, Latent Fusion and Disco Fusion.
I have designed the look and feel of the website, the site structure, visual design style and I have designed the interface and the content. The site has been coded by a web coding engineer using my web and visual designs of the interface, page layouts and features that I defined. These design are featured in this site here: UX and UI Design
Special thanks to Andreas Refsgaard from whom I recieved teaching, coaching and training of how to use AI systems and special thanks to Gary Cheesemen, software code engineer for his work in creating the web site from my designs using React.js, HTML5 and Phython for the backend integrations using APIs to access Google’s Disco Diffusion.

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