Inspiration:
As AI-generated art become more accessible (e.g. Dall E), I started to wonder what it means to create. If we use algorithm to generate an image, who is the ‘creator’ of the work? Would it be the AI or the developer or the user? Or could it be counted as collaboration across all three? Does who matter more than what? I wanted to shift the focus on the output/work instead of the author by making a space where anyone can easily create something beautiful and let their work be part of the many.
sketch:
Since oftentimes creations are made with hands, I want to capture the movements of hands and the act of creation & presentation of the creation. Motion of opening hands gives the sense of carefully presenting something small and important, so I’m thinking to use leapmotion to detect the motion of slowly opening palms to reveal what’s inside.
Upon opening one’s palm, a butterfly of randomly selected shape and color would come alive and start flipping its wings on the user’s palm, then fly towards the front to join the crowd of butterflies.
“The ancient Greek word for “butterfly” is akin to psyche: soul or mind.” Creation starts with one’s idea, and I thought the motion of creating and releasing and idea would be best portrayed with animating a butterfly that later joins the crowd of butterflies presented in front of the user. The collection of glowing colorful butterflies would represent how we can easily appreciate works by others regardless of the author, as well as contribute to it by doing a simple motion of opening palms.