Listen now to THE GRAIN with Ronit Novak, as I continue my series of podcast probes into the pleasure and peril of AI and the future of creativity—recorded at Made Human Studios in the Little Jamaica neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada.
Links to some stuff we talk about…
Una Janićijević’s art and design website [unaart.com]
She engages with collaborators and communities to tell compelling stories and champion underrepresented narrativesHow the sparkles emoji became the symbol of our AI future [Wall Street Journal]
“From a design perspective, the sparkle in my mind is meant to feel like magic, and that is what AI feels like”Why does AI art look like that? [The Atlantic]
Ironically, all of these explanations suggest that the uncanny scenes we associate with AI-generated imagery are actually a reflection of our own human preferences, taken to an extreme
Stay tuned for further grains of thought about art and design in the newsletter.
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AI vs. Design: Una Janićijević on branding and beyond