FEB to Judi - AI

 

I enjoyed making sun designs and rune lettering in January so I made a chart of who-got-what. Judi got a script in Jan so she gets a sun + runes in February. I wish I had made her name a little larger and used a different color on her last name. I ended up really liking the feel of the rune style - even though it's the one called New Celtic. I can't remember if I ever resolved the names of the styles I used in January.

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I am writing this on Jan 23 where I just read the daily post about the camera Lucida. In listing the various ways to get an image on a canvas (or wall) prior to painting, I mentioned using a slide projector to project an image. I brought up the question of whether or not it was cheating to use any type of device to transfer an image. 

This is probably a topic with tons of opinions and no way to reach a definitive answer. I am amused by  people who are not artists - yet they insist that anything other than using your eyeballs and hands is cheating. 

Which brings us to Artificial Art (AI). Personally, that's where I draw the line. Maybe it's because it's so new. Maybe people who use AI are experiencing the exact same things that I experience when I am maneuvering my markers across an envelope? After computer graphics had been around for a while, I started to see how the endless clicking was *legit* art - even though I thought that computer generated art was lacking in the tactile sensation one gets with traditional tools.

There is the experience of making the art. Then there is the product. Is one or the other more significant?

Trick question. They both matter and neither can be measured so it's pointless to compare.

I guess we have to drag this topic over to a third day.