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TIME ENOUGH: Generative AI Visions of Climate Change as Cave Paintings of the Future

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Latisha Besariani Hendra,

Kexue FuAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '24: Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition

Pages 608 - 613

https://doi.org/10.1145/3635636.3672190

Published: 23 June 2024 Publication History

Abstract

It is difficult to tangibly feel climate change because it must be imagined into the future. The original cave painting in pre-historic times, too was an attempt to imagine the future in a creative space that we no longer understand. Generative AI (GenAI) serves as a tool for us today much as cave paintings were for pre-historic humans to imagine a climate future by interfacing our tools into drawings of our visions. TIME ENOUGH is a collective voice of today concerning the future narrated using GenAI, showing both how we envision challenges of the climate and how we may adapt to them in the future. These images and videos recreate a modern version of the age-old cave painting in the first truly creative space in human history, showing how our imaginations and anxieties of today are mere echoes of what concerned our ancestors from a seemingly remote time.

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TIME ENOUGH: Generative AI Visions of Climate Change as Cave Paintings of the Future
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning

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Zhou SHendra LLc R(2024)Eternagram: Post-Climate Devastation Text AdventureProceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction10.1145/3678698.3687201(1-2)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3678698.3687201
LC R(2024)THE PRESENT IS IN THE FUTURE: Participatory Generative AI Co-Created Visions as Intangible Cultural HeritageProceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction10.1145/3678698.3687200(1-2)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3678698.3687200

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