Gigabyte’s Humanity X Art X Technology exhibition explores how AI might reshape our experience with art
During the week of Computex 2024 in Taipei, Gigabyte hosted the Gigabyte AI New Era: Humanity X Art X Technology exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park’s W1 Building for a very limited time from 1-5 June.
The event aims to highlight the confluence of artificial intelligence with humanity, art, and technology, and showcased the positive transformative impact of AI (artificial intelligence) on various facets of life. This was done through AI-generated art and machine learning applications that illustrate how AI is reshaping the world, via three thematic areas: AI Art, VS AI Street Battle, and AI Life Applications – with each offering a unique perspective on AI’s capabilities.
One of the exhibition’s highlights is the collaboration with generative AI artists from around the world, and I saw works by Dimension+’s Escher Tsai (Taiwan) and Keith Lam (Hong Kong). Both were also joined by Ygor Marotta from the VJ Suave studio in Sao Paulo, and Taiwanese new media artist Tim Wei. Every artists works were powered by Gigabyte Aorus gaming notebooks.
@hwztech Gigabyte’s Humanity X Art X Technology exhibition explores how AI might reshape our experience with art. Here’s Ygor Marotta’s paint creation, Microdsys, which was done with codes, texts and AI. #gigabyte #ai #art #humanities #artificelintelligence ♬ original sound HardwareZone
Ygor’s paint creation, Microdosys, which was done with codes, texts and a fair bit of imagination thanks to generative AI was quite trippy visually.
Ecological Pool by Dimension+ features an interactive installation that simulates the life cycle and evolution of a fictional species. This creation involves two machines working in tandem. The right machine generates a new species, which is then sent to the left machine to undergo a birth-to-death process. The resulting data is fed back to the right machine, which evolves the species further. This iterative cycle continues throughout the exhibition, with the fictional creature changing hourly and daily. Again, quite trippy in my opinion.
@hwztech Gigabyte’s Humanity X Art X Technology exhibition explores how AI might reshape our experience with art. Here’s Tim Wei’s Chaos Grammer, which generates multiple representations of an object onto the screen. #gigabyte #ai #art #humanities #artificelintelligence ♬ original sound – HardwareZone
Next, I experienced the Chaos Grammar interactive exhibit by Tim Wei. Guests were invited to enter the name of an animal as a text prompt. Someone in our midst wrote “brown cow”. The exhibit then generated multiple representations of the animal and put on a show with accompanying audio effects. After the performance, the generated objects fell to the bottom of the screen, accumulating like toys in a child’s room. This art reminds me of Katamari Damarcy.
@hwztech Would you win the AI in a battle of generative prompts? #gigabyte #ai #art #humanities #artificelintelligence ♬ original sound – HardwareZone
At the VS AI Street Battle room, we were shown an AI interpretation of street fighting. Rather than a fight as you would expect in a typical video game, these battles involved using words to generate AI images based on a given prompt. Two players would then compete against each other or the AI to create the most compelling image, as judged by an AI judge. We played two games against the AI and both times the AI declared us the loser. Was the AI biased? Hmm.
Finally, the last room showcased some AI concepts spread across different Gigabyte Aorus gaming notebooks including a VR and live image capturing demos, but it was a live AI drawing station that got me intrigued.
First, a digital photo was taken of me, which then turned me into a digital superhero (thanks to the live capturing demo). Using Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI, I was able to mark the areas of the photo that I wanted to manipulate with special effects or to add objects. Typing “anime man doing magic” then prompted the AI to replace those marked areas with red balloons on the lower right photo (above).
Gigabyte’s AI New Era: Humanity X Art X Technology Exhibition showcased numerous advanced examples of AI integration into daily life. There has been a lot of discussion online with regards to artists’ ownerships and copyrights and rightly so, but without getting into a debate I’m quite intrigued by the possibilities of AI in the hands of a capable artist. Picture attending a live performance by an AI visual artist, with dynamic artwork unfolding in real-time, rather than static displays.
Such innovations, of course, cannot be done without powerful and AI-capable hardware, which Gigabyte demonstrated during my tour of the exhibition. AI was a constant at Computex 2024, but I found Gigabyte’s exhibition to be a fresh of breath air – it really stood out with its unique real-life application of how AI can elevate and bring a different dimension to humanities and art.
