Practice-based research at SensiLab

Abstract

Recent developments in prompt-based generative AI has given rise to discourse surrounding the perceived ethical concerns, economic implications, and consequences for the future of cultural production. As generative imagery becomes pervasive in mainstream society, dominated primarily by emerging industry leaders, we encourage that the role of the CHI community be one of inquiry; to investigate the numerous ways in which generative AI has the potential to, and already is, augmenting human creativity. In this paper, we conducted a diffractive analysis exploring the potential role of prompt-based interfaces in artists' creative practice. Over a two week period, seven visual artists were given access to a personalised instance of Stable Diffusion, fine-tuned on a dataset of their work. In the following diffractive analysis, we identified two

A 3D subtractive brush system for an immersive, multilayered archaeological map

“…This work is part of an iterative and incremental endeavour that gradually layers new methods of visualisation over a defined urban space; the Visualising Angkor project is practice-based [26], and rather than seeking to bring forth a known end, we learn through making and value process more than outcome.…”