CLARTSA216 - Painting With Artificial Intelligence
Whether you are intrigued, perplexed, enthused or disturbed by the capacity of artificial intelligence to generate images from language prompts, programs like DALL-E and Midjourney are profoundly altering the landscape of visual arts. Painter Laura Spector confronts the uncertainties and dualities of generative AI as both deeply problematic and full of potential inspiration for artists. We experiment with generative AI programs, learning to write specific prompts to render a wide range of visual images. Using these images as loose inspiration, each participant then creates a painting on canvas of their own design, by their own hand. Ultimately, this course makes the case that thriving artistically in an age of generative AI requires understanding AI’s capacities and limitations and creating a recognizable body of work with your own compelling, personal “art story.”
Note: This course is designed for students who have taken an introductory painting course or have basic familiarity with color theory, paint mixing and application.
You may also be interested in these fall 2023 courses:
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and Humanity, various Rice University faculty
- Creating a Body of Artwork, Ellen Orseck
Course Details
Laura Spector is a Houston-based artist and art instructor. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at The Jung Center in Houston. She is best known for her acclaimed Museum Anatomy project, which began in 1996, where she collaborated with museum curators in 16 countries, searching for hidden, stolen, lost and destroyed paintings, which she reimagines in paint, photography and sculpture. Among Spector’s honors are a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, an individual grant from Houston Arts Alliance, the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and an artist-in-residence at Atelierhaus Hilmsen, Germany. Spector is currently an artist-in-residence recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Online--Synchronous
This course will be delivered in a synchronous format online. Registered participants will receive login instructions to the course page which will provide access to the virtual classroom link and other resources. All online classes are held at Central Standard Time.
This course is designed for students who have taken an introductory painting course or have basic familiarity with color theory, paint mixing and application.
Studio art supply lists are shared two weeks before the course start date. Contact cpcoord@rice.edu with questions. Fee does not include cost of supplies, approximately $50.