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Sharing a condensed version of a framework for communicating ideas in the age of Al-empowered creation. To make matters more memorable, the #IdeAction framework backronyms IDEA: inspiration, description, emotion, action. https://paragraph.xyz/@marmo/ideaction-an-intraconnected-framework-for-activating-ideation

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Very interesting read. Were you thinking primarily of visual art (ai) when writing? How do you feel this format differs from a typical Artist’s statement?

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(b) apply to an artist’s entire practice and not on a work-by-work, text-by-text basis, whereas the IdeAction is piece-specific and (c) often to be written in very abstract, art-speak-y terms, whereas the IdeAction encourages dropping down Hayakawa’s ladder of abstraction.

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c) I know what you mean - I wonder about this often and am afraid that it’s what turns off people from participating in art, going to museums etc. but then I think - the same goes for any profession, right? At a high enough level, it does become hard to understand or communicate certain concepts in a super simplified

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..way. I’ve tried to experiment a bit here - on unknownwomen.xyz I created an FAQ style artist’s statement, intentionally for this reason. May have still overshot a bit with too much content…(not trying to advertise my work btw genuinely sharing something i’ve been thinking about ie simplification of language i

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Or perhaps there's a deeper sense of knowledge and knowing. And that deeper sense is a human sense. And on that level the images are known by us in a more profound and complete, a more symphonic way. I would love to hear more about this interplay between knowing and naming. Another intraconnected domain of IdeAction.

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Or perhaps this is a larger meditation on the art of being unknown. Or the difference between being unnamed and being unknown. Even someone who is unknown is named as unknown. These images have numerical names. What does it mean to be known? Is it the case that, in some sense, these images are known more by the AI?

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And I would like to know the emotional intention of the work: what emotional impact do you intend for the work to have upon human beings? Is this a questioning of the PFP form? So that seems like an inquisitive state, not a visceral or passionate state. It's a state of cognitive distance.

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That could mean a couple of emotional states, from an anti-chronological, perhaps a kairological sense of needing to cling to a moment, to stop time dead in its tracks, or a defensive energy summoned to defend this new technology from its detractors. I would love to know the emotional state of this work's creation.

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I would also like a clear description of how you constructed these works. What platform did you use? What prompts did you use? This was a GAN of some sort, and not the transformer, the current rage for IdeAction Painters.

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I don't think you overshot at all. In fact, I would love to hear more about your personal inspiration, what in your life inspired this creation—the what, where, when, and why. Currently, there is an overture to the historic impact of the technology, which is not the personal a form of inspiration I yearn to know.

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I would, however, hope that anonymity would not preclude a more vivid and concrete description of inspiration and emotional intention. The intersection of spiritual adaptation and the now is a mixed metaphorical terrain that, while poetically compelling, is not something that can be impressed upon the senses.

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Love this! Minted a few and find it to be a fascinating project. I'm most interested in the concept of what it means to be "unknown" or "anonymous," both as the artist and with respect to the women depicted. The IdeAction framework contemplates disclosure of an identity, but that may certainly be creation (aren't all?)

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Finally, what actions were taken in the service of this idea. Again, as you say, some artists do not want to reveal their process, and that's completely fine, but I feel that doing so, in this time of AI-empowered art, makes the work more human. I find that to be a good thing, a compelling thing that draws me.

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I would love to know your emotional state when creating this work. Were you confident, was there any trepidation? What were your concerns? You mention the the question of race in the FAQ. And then there is a mention of the "demonization of AI in media" and freezing "this moment in AI’s progress" to "humanize it."

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The FAQ text is simple and readable, and does not suffer from the opacity of artspeak, but it's still somewhat more abstract than the level on the IdeAction framework's target concrete level for distinguishing the humanity—intentional and emotional humanity—teleologically empowering the AI-executed creations.

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