“The Ascenti AI Project” is about AI and Creativity. Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI book features a diverse group of professionals, known as “creatives,” who specialize in visual art, writing, photography, audiobook performance, music, and computer games. These individuals experiment by inspiring AI apps to generate works based on prompts derived from their original artworks and writings, then interpret AI’s outcomes. Some of the creatives find that AI provides positive solutions to overcome visual or other challenges they face. Other creatives uncover methods where AI supplements or amplifies their artistic visions. Conversely, there are those who voice AI’s limitations and shortcomings. The Ascenti Project includes the book Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI, the website at ascenti-project.com, and Durvile & UpRoute’s “Ascenti-AI 2024: Symposium on AI and Creative Arts,” held in April, 2024 in partnership with the Calgary Public Library.
Authors
Steve DiPaola, Lorene Shyba PhD, DerRic Starlight, James R. Parker
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- CA
Table of Contents
- Tabula Contentorum 7
- ASCENTI HUMANS OPENING TO AI 7
- Tabula Contentorum 8
- ASCENTI HUMANS OPENING TO AI 8
- Foreword 9
- STEVE DiPAOLA PhD 9
- Portal to the Future 9
- Foreword 13
- DerRic STARLIGHT 13
- AI and Literacy at the Tsuutina Nation 13
- Preface 17
- ACCESSIBILITY AND AFFINITIES 17
- Chapter 1 19
- CLEM MARTINI 19
- The Totalizator Scene and Two AI Responses 19
- TAKEOVER IN HELL AI RESPONSE 1 25
- SOUL SHORTAGE AI RESPONSE 2 27
- OBSERVATIONS 29
- THE TOTALIZATOR AND THE AI RESPONSES 29
- Chapter 2 31
- DAGMAR JAMIESON 31
- Part I A West Coast Home Design 31
- Accessible AI for Architecture 35
- A POSITION STATEMENT 35
- Part 2 Creating Artwork for the West Coast Home 36
- My Philosophy of Life and Creativity 40
- AN EXTENDED BIOGRAPHY 40
- Chapter 3 41
- VERNA VOGEL 41
- The Key and the Asemic Writings 41
- REFLECTIONS 48
- AN EXPANDED TACTILE AND CONCEPTUAL AESTHETIC 48
- Chapter 4 49
- RICH THÉROUX 49
- Chapter 5 61
- UCHECHUKWU PETER UMEZURIKE PhD 61
- A Trainride is a Lifetime and Two Types of AI Responses 61
- A TRAINRIDE IS A LIFETIME 62
- Chapter 6 75
- JULIAN HOBSON 75
- Mother Sun Light Frequency 75
- OBSERVATIONS 85
- MOTHER SUN AND AI RESPONSES 85
- Chapter 7 87
- KENNA BURIMA 87
- Music in the Uncanny Valley 87
- OBSERVATIONS 94
- MUSIC IN THE UNCANNY VALLEY 94
- Chapter 8 95
- EVELINE KOLIJN 95
- The Tethys Sea Expedition Logs 95
- REFLECTIONS 101
- THE TETHYS EXPEDITION LOGS 101
- Chapter 9 105
- ROSEMARY GRIEBEL 105
- Seeking the Mystery in the Machine Writing Poetry with Artificial Intelligence 105
- MORTALITY 107
- ELEGY OF THE UNSEEN SYMPHONY 109
- OBSERVATIONS 113
- SEEKING THE MYSTERY IN THE MACHINE 113
- Chapter 10 117
- LORENE SHYBA PhD 117
- Audiobook Performance Believability 117
- DISCOVERIES 125
- EVALUATION SUMMARIES AI PERFORMANCES 125
- DISCOVERIES 126
- EVALUATION SUMMARIES AI PERFORMANCES 126
- Chapter 11 128
- JOHN HEEREMA PhD 128
- Red Rock Coulee Study 128
- OBSERVATIONS 132
- RED ROCK COULEE EXPERIMENTS 132
- STUDIES IN DEEP FAKERY 133
- Chapter 12 136
- JAMES R. PARKER PhD 136
- AI in Computer Games and Game Development 136
- Index Libri 144
- Index Libri 145
- Verbum finale 146
