Project 2: Robo-Pop: Remixing Culture with AI
Your Task:
Select a popular and culturally significant image.
Use AI remixing tools to create a series of (9-12) new images that infuse fresh meaning and perspective while preserving the essence of the original.
Aim to balance innovation with respect for the source material, demonstrating how the old can be transformed through new technologies.
As you work, reflect on your creative choices and the ethical considerations involved in your process.
AI Tools
Here’s a list of AI tools that allow you to upload images for remixing, editing, or using as references. I want you to think about these as more than tools, more like collaborators. Run your images in and out of multiple processes, including digital tools like Adobe, and any apps that you already use. Also consider using analog processes like drawing, painting, photography, hand cut collage, etc. Weave them back and forth between AI and your other processes and take advantage of the fresh perspective that AI can offer, but you are the artist and should retain artistic control. Above all, have fun, play, experiment, take risks, try new things and wonder down unfamiliar paths.
Free Image-to-Image AI Generators
Deep Dream Generator
Description: A popular tool that turns one image into a dream-like vision inspired by another using neural networks.
Craiyon (formerly DALL-E Mini)
Link: https://www.craiyon.com/
Description: Free, web-based AI image generator allowing users to transform images based on input or generate images from text.
Artbreeder
Description: Allows users to blend images and generate new artwork through various machine learning models.
NightCafe Studio
Description: Free credits available to use the image-to-image function to transform uploaded images into artworks in different styles.
Pixray
Link: https://pixray.gob.io/
Description: Text-to-image generator that allows for image-to-image transformations, with customizable algorithms for different effects.
Playground AI
Description: Offers a free tier allowing users to generate images from text and also transform existing images.
Stable Diffusion
Link: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/ & Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion & Stable Diffusion Online (stablediffusionweb.com)
Description: DreamStudio allows image-to-image generation using Stable Diffusion; free credits are provided upon sign-up.
Runway ML
Link: https://runwayml.com/
Description: Advanced video and image processing tools, including image-to-image generation with customizable AI models.
Artisto
Link: https://artistoapp.com/
Description: AI-powered art effects app that allows you to transform images or videos into artwork with filters.
DeepArt.io (recent changes may have taken away image to image capabilities)
Description: A paid tool to turn images into artwork in various artistic styles, offering neural network transformations.
ZMO.AI (Zyro AI)
Link: https://www.zmo.ai/
Description: A platform offering image-to-image transformation based on various filters and AI-driven tools.
Jasper Art
Description: AI image generator with an intuitive interface and various customization options; requires a paid plan after the free trial.
Developer Tools (Open Source)
Hugging Face Diffusers (Stable Diffusion)
Description: Provides pre-trained models for image generation, offering code and guides to deploy Stable Diffusion locally for free.
Hugging Face links to try
https://huggingface.co/spaces/jkorstad/InstantMesh-img-to-3D
https://huggingface.co/spaces/AP123/IllusionDiffusion
https://huggingface.co/spaces/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait
https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/stable-video-diffusion
https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/CLIP-Interrogator-2
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tonyassi/voice-clone
https://huggingface.co/spaces/awacke1/Image-to-Line-Drawings
https://huggingface.co/spaces/dreamer-technoland/object-to-object-replace
https://huggingface.co/spaces/yufiofficial/Ai-Replace
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Yaman3/ReplaceBackground
https://huggingface.co/spaces/sudo-ai/MeshLRM
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Kwai-Kolors/Kolors-Virtual-Try-On
https://huggingface.co/spaces/finegrain/finegrain-object-cutter
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Doubiiu/tooncrafter
https://huggingface.co/spaces/TencentARC/PhotoMaker
https://huggingface.co/spaces/OzzyGT/diffusers-image-fill
RunwayML Stable Diffusion
Description: A free-to-use, open-source tool for developers to use Stable Diffusion for image-to-image transformations.
Sudo
Link: https://www.sudo.ai/
Description: can turn images into 3D objects.
Deep AI:
Description: Various AI Tools for editing your images
Stability AI
Description: various AI tools, image editing, video and more! -3day trial before you have to pay, so use it wisely
Remix AI Magic Camera
Open Art AI
Link: Editing (openart.ai)
Description: Edit images with various AI tools.
Beta Chinese based video AI generator
Description: Free for now, in Chinese but you can type in english. TRY IT before they start charging. :)
Runway ML
Description - multiple AI tools, but popularly know for image to video and so much more! Free trial, this one is so powerful I would pay for it.
Sketch lab
Description: Quickly animate a stick figure like drawing!
My Heritage
Link: https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia/result/1416347272-500001
Description Quickly animate a portrait
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