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Drawing Conversations Mediated by AI

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Paulina Yurman,

Anuradha Venugopal ReddyAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '22: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Pages 56 - 70

https://doi.org/10.1145/3527927.3531448

Published: 20 June 2022 Publication History

Abstract

In this pictorial paper, we present a series of drawing conversations held between two humans, mediated by computational GAN models. We consider how this creative collaboration is affected by the hybrid inclusion of more-than-human participants in the form of watercolour and artificial intelligence. Our drawing experiments were an extension of our search for new ways of seeing and telling, which includes a reflection of the extent to which more-than-human elements took part in our creative process. We discuss our tendencies to form strange interpretations and assign meaning to the unpredictable and ambiguous spaces we created with them. We further speculate on the characteristic material agencies they revealed in our interactions with them. Finally, we contend how such collaborations are already and always embedded and embodied in our ways of seeing and knowing in design and creativity research.

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