RIT's Creative Collision 2024
Opposing Forces: The intersection, conflict, and synthesis of design, humanity & A.I.
Creative Collision at Rochester Institute of Technology sees teams of New Media Design undergraduates and Visual Communication Design M.F.A. students seeking to respond through design to a shared prompt:
Opposing Forces: The intersection, conflict, and synthesis of design, humanity & A.I.
Teams were allotted a total of 53 hours to conceptualize, design, and create a tangible response to the prompt.
Teams were allotted a total of 53 hours to conceptualize, design, and create a tangible response to the prompt.
My team opted to explore the concept of memory in relation to image and/or art creation; specifically the idea that A.I. image generators lack the context required to create images that could capture the depth and nature of human memory and experience.
Our project: The Human Imprint, is an interactive experience that invites users to compare and contrast the types of imagery that human artists create from their own experience with that which A.I. creates based on prompts and references inspired by human memory. Each team member created an original artwork based on a memory, and then explored AI image generation utilizing that memory as a starting point.
My Role(s): This team experience was an absolute dream. (How lucky am I?!)
We worked as a group to develop and fine tune the concept, and we sat together through the design and prototyping. I wasn't in the driver's seat for most of the Figma process, but we truly collaborated on the full range of both functional and conceptual elements. We sat together while troubleshooting interactions, and shared decisions on everything ranging from from typefaces to color palette to spacing. Each of us created our own artwork and generated the associated AI renderings to add to the final product. We coordinated and collaborated and laughed and professed our love for Basic Sans. I would literally write a professional reference for any of these people.
Like I said, a dream.
We worked as a group to develop and fine tune the concept, and we sat together through the design and prototyping. I wasn't in the driver's seat for most of the Figma process, but we truly collaborated on the full range of both functional and conceptual elements. We sat together while troubleshooting interactions, and shared decisions on everything ranging from from typefaces to color palette to spacing. Each of us created our own artwork and generated the associated AI renderings to add to the final product. We coordinated and collaborated and laughed and professed our love for Basic Sans. I would literally write a professional reference for any of these people.
Like I said, a dream.
