The Lost AI Codex: The Acid Western
Channel: Infinite Imaginarium Community
Date: 2024-04-07

Delve into the captivating intersection of AI image production and psychedelic artistry through the lens of a mesmerizing 'swamptronica' music video, Dirtwire’s cover of an old soft rock classic, America’s “Horse with No Name.” 🌌✨🎶🔮 🚀🎨

"the rapid transformation and evocative multiplication of related shapes and styles lies at the heart of AI image production as well. The variable responses to prompts are often fashioned through relations of likeness, resemblance, and similarity. Resonant shapes—stable diffusions—are brought to the fore. In filmese, you call these sorts of morphological juxtapositions match cuts or graphic matches, and while they may be purely formal, they often carry a symbolic or thematic charge. While the following famous match cut, from the opening scene in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, is not particularly trippy (or particularly exact), its symbolic as well as formal weight lends an apocalyptic charge to the visionary content of the film."

OUTLINE:
00:00:00 The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Visual Arts
00:00:46 The Characteristics of Psychedelic Art and AI Image Production
00:01:32 The Fusion of Psychedelic Art and AI in Visual Arts
00:02:05 The Potential of AI to Revolutionize Visual Arts

"Last summer, Scotto’s missive linked to a music video for the “swamptronica” band Dirtwire’s cover of an old soft rock classic, America’s “Horse with No Name.” I don’t know what swamptronica means; the band plays the charmingly bland 1971 hit pretty straight. But the images—the work of Stable Diffusion artist Optimoos, who seeks to "unlock the infinite possibilities of AI animation" according to his Youtube channel—was, as the newsletter promised, rather mesmerizing. I decided to write about it right away and then got caught up with other things. Like so much snackable content these days, I was prepared to release this weird iridescent fish back into the torrent of the obscene barrage and just forget about it. But I kept thinking about the thing, and sharing the video, even if my initial amazement gave way over subsequent watchings to a cooler appreciation of its pop futuristic sorcery. Give it a toke, at least for a minute or so"

based on AI and the Acid Western by Erik Davis
https://www.burningshore.com/p/ai-and-the-acid-western?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web