Art creation as an emergent multimodal journey in Artificial Intelligence latent space

Abstract

This research explores emergent creative processes that develop between artist (interactor) and generative artificially intelligent (AI) technology when an AI system is positioned as a latent space n-dimensional journeying tool or more semantically as an ontological other that the artist works through. The authors investigate a new artistic process, building a latent space journeying AI diffusion system, and with it examining a more multimodal emotional approach to art making including how intentions of the artist are reshaped by journeying through the algorithmic transformation and re-presentation to question what is preserved, nurtured, lost, or irrevocably altered in the interplay of the autographic and the algorithmic. The study finds that neural media, as the authors term it, becomes a non-deterministic multimodal process of moving (an emotion journey) through AI latent space. This time and space n-dimensional artist journey is achieved through a series of choices and creative forks, including external perturbation from the AI system, the ontological "other"leading to the artist's innate expression of their emotional reactions of intermediate art artifacts on that journey to a final aesthetic artifact.