Moving towards creating my FMP, I have started to experiment with AI art to explore various interpretations and art forms of my ideas. Using the programme DALL.E I asked it to depict ‘psychology of the self, using a mirror and a figure’ in various styles. The first art form I wanted to explore was vapour wave as it is something I have never experimented with before; below I have included my favourite vapour wave response.

‘Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, visual art style, and Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s’, the definition of Vapour Wave according to Wikipedia.

I particularly love the colours that this image uses as it ties in with my previous experimentation where I have added depth to imagery by ​using blue and purple paint. I also love how the mirror uses lines that follow no pattern to create the idea of distortion and questioning identity. 

I then asked the software to repeat the process but to depict the image as a form of digital art and it responded with a variety of outcomes, all with various aesthetics. I particularly love the one I have included below due to its abstract depiction of the figure and how it heavily links back to my abstract depictions of faces and figures that I included in my Investigation and Proposal Sketchbook. This has given me new ideas of how I can use abstract techniques in illustrations to depict not only figures but the overall theme of distortion.

I then asked DALL.E to create a 3D render of my request, ‘psychology of the self, using a mirror and a figure’, to see what it would depict. 

Despite this being what I asked for, I find this depiction highly disturbing and it does not match my previous research and experimentation so I will not be exploring it further. However, it is highly useful to see alternative ways it is possible to explore the themes of identity, psychology and distortion, especially through technology.

Finally, I finished by asking DALL.E to depict the first idea I explored when working to create my FMP, which was ‘Stripped Bare’. I asked the software to depict ‘psychology, stripped bare, figure of human, digital art’ to see what it would generate. Out of its four responses, the one included below is my favourite due to how it has placed the figure and kept the face featureless.

Through using AI to question the meaning of identity and who we truly are, I have received a fully technological response through visuals which have allowed me to explore my thinking from a completely new angle.  I will continue to use AI to explore new ways of approaching my ideas and exploring them visually.