Title: Creative Liminality [x] AI
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Starting with an image of an original piece of text, Creative Liminality [x] AI encodes layers upon layers of glitches to subsequent interpretations of the text made using ChatGPT; visually reducing the clarity of the text and manipulating the authenticity and impact of its original intention, just as these AI-driven tools can do when overused.
Location: New York; USA
Creative Experience
Entering the liminal space of creativity and discovery can feel like a risky, uncomfortable endeavour to many. I believe the answer to this challenge is not to make the experience less risky, thus limiting the great rewards that this ambiguity can offer, but to develop tools that help people feel more confident as they wander through the chaos of creative unknowns.
One could argue that today’s AI-mediated tools are doing just that; helping to speed up our creative processes by summarising and regenerating content at the touch of a button. However, what does this frictionless efficiency take away from the things we can discover and create? What glitches in our knowledge or inspiration may appear? I like to play with code and push GenAI tools to unfamiliar outputs to explore and critique these questions, hopefully revealing new approaches to our digitally-augmented creativity in the process.
Biography and links
Pip Mothersill is an interdisciplinary, human-centered designer and technologist who is passionate about exploring, critiquing, and creating new applications for A.I.-driven technologies. Her research is situated at the intersection of cognitive science, AI-driven technologies, and experience design and investigates the nature of human connection, knowledge and shared experiences when much of the content we consume--from text to images to music--is not 'real'. Through creative computation, visual design and writing, Mothersill's work explores how the power of generative AI to reinterpret content can both impact our ability to discover new ideas and be leveraged to build more inspired, divergent creative practices.