Art Project Sept-Dec 2024

Art and AI - an exploration...

We've been exploring the concept of art and AI, over a number of weeks and in different ways, during opportunities created and contributed to by different members of the Lodge community.

We started by surveying the Lodge community, to see who identified as a artist, or had any kind of artistic/creative practice.

From this survey, we established what skills and interests existed within the community, and over the following weeks, different people organised sessions to further share and explore this.

The Sessions

Below is a summary of the practical sessions and discussion groups that took place during the project:

Art and Ai - the big question

Experimenting with AI Art Generators

What is art?

Hypothetically Illegal - art related crime/crime and art

Gelli printing

Autumn Photography at Bridge End Gardens

Arty cookies

Recreating Modern Art from description

Lino cutting and printing inspired by Storyland

Art inspired Philosotea - art or not art?

Creative work/art Show and Tell

Planning the Lodge AI Animals Book

Creating AI animals

Bake Off inspired Creative Challenges

Wild Time Art

The Lodge Book of Extraordinary Animals

During the project a book emerged - the Lodge Book of Extraordinary Animals. The animals were created by considering either a hybrid of two types of animals, or an animal and an element such as ice, and then brought to life using an AI image generator.

Over a period of development, these images were refined, and descriptions of their habitats, diets, lifestyles and magical powers were written.

You can click here to download the book!