AI Image Generation Workshop for Beginners

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Make the most out of AI image generating by learning how to use Stable Diffusion in this two-part series workshop with James Irwin!

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Digital Training Sessions

Digital Training Sessions is a workshop series delivered by practising artists to share critical skills in digital art, including physical computing, 3D modelling, game engines, AI techniques and more.

Please note that this is a two-part workshop series with sessions taking place on Saturday 11 and 18 May from 10am - 12pm. One ticket covers both sessions.With the recent emergence of image-generating AI systems such as DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, the task of generating images with computers has been remodelled as a text-based process known as 'prompting'.Prompting involves instructing a pre-trained AI model to hallucinate images in reaction to the specifics of text-based inputs. Prompts dictate image style, composition and genre, to the extent that images generated using these systems often appear as weird pastiches, with giveaway aesthetic signals - 8-fingered hands, for example - that point to their artificial origins.Workshop participants will experiment with trying to find the cracks in these systems, using creative prompting to explore whether these systems really are the dawn of a new horizon, offering the potential for breakthroughs in digital image-making beyond the offset of human labour. Workshop 1. Introduction to Stable Diffusion: Text to ImageDate: May 11th 2024, 10am - 12pmThis workshop will provide an introduction to the interface of Stable Diffusion’s Automatic 1111 software. Participants will explore the impact of the softwares wide variety of features on images generated through text-based prompts.Workshop 2. Introduction to Stable Diffusion: Image to ImageDate: May 18th 2024, 10am - 12pmBuilding on the introduction to the Automatic 1111 interface covered in the first session, this workshop will explore how Stable Diffusion's img-2-img functionality can be used as a collaborative tool to reimagine image-based practice.Requirements:<ul><li>A laptop</li><li>Prior to the session, please create an account with<a href="http://rundiffusion.com" title="http://rundiffusion.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> rundiffusion.com</a> and add $5 credit to the account. This covers 10 hours of Run Diffusion, which is what is needed for the workshops and personal projects.</li></ul> Workshop leader bio<a href="https://www.jamesirwin.net/" title="https://www.jamesirwin.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">James Irwin</a> is an Artist, PhD researcher at Kingston School of Art, Lecturer at UAL and Digital Media Tutor at the Royal Academy Schools. He works with web technologies, AI systems and digital sound and image to investigate the notion of a vital life force inherent within digital media.By creating cognitive assemblages - made from a combination of networked digital hardware, software and human wetware - his work builds from new materialist ideas around recentering the human, undoing our role as autonomous individuals and pointing to the ways in which the production of subjectivity is offset to forces outside of our bodies; the posthuman is biological, but also networked and dispersed through machines.

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