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Prompt-Writing Workshop:
Hybrid Intelligence, Generative AI & Human Creativity
Instructor: Jumoke Fernandez, Sebastian Zimmerhackl Guests: Eliott Highmore, Erica Love, Rômulo Moraes, NEON Internet, Jon Rafman, Umut Yildiz. Credit: 2 Date & Time: August 16th, 30th, September 13th, September 27th, October 25th, November 8th, November 22nd, December 6th. 13:00-15:30 ET

DESCRIPTION: In this eight-session workshop split into two modules and featuring Guests who have been experimenting with these AI tools, we work within the emerging field of AI-powered content creation and tap into its potential to augment and enhance human creativity. Oriented toward the hybrid intelligence of the human and the machine to achieve a common goal, the participants will learn about prompt writing through exercises and managing the output of multiple AI tools. They will produce works that neither humans nor machines can achieve independently. Participants will work on their own animated storytelling project using ChatGPT and other tools AI tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, providing text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-audio, video-to-video, and image-to-image output as well as voice creation. The aim is to craft narratives that go beyond the conventional boundaries of non-AI media. The participants will also learn to deal with the ethical implications of AI in content creation and the need for responsible use of the technology, including concerns about job displacement, bias in AI algorithms, and the political considerations around using AI to create content that can deceive or manipulate audiences.

Session 1: Course + GENAI introduction + ChatGPT script generation with Mohammad Salemy 

DESCRIPTION:

  • A brief overview about the 8 sessions of our seminar with an introduction to generative AI. 
  • Start working with ChatGPT to build a narrative for the final project.

READINGS:

TOOLS: ChatGPT, WhyBot

OUTCOME: 1x Narrative Overview + 1x Script

Session 2: Image Generation
DESCRIPTION:

  • We teach you how to use Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and other image creation tools.
  • Here we will experiment together and learn tricks for more efficient image generation.
  • Building prompts to illustrate the narrative we created in session 1.

TOOLS: Midjourney, Stablediffusion, Dall-E, Real Ersgan

OUTCOME: 10x Images

Session 3: Prompting and Making a World  | Guest, Jon Rafman.

DESCRIPTION: Evolution of AI Prompting and its implications, discussions with our guest Jon Rafman.

READINGS: Text by JON RAFMAN: AI Prompt Manifesto and a Graphic Novel titled  MACHINE ELVES  available on the Class folder https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1mL9ZV4RJpSD9rl87ZvMjN-LTUDzlKhZH

Session 4: Video Generation | Guest: Neon Internet & Elliott Highmore
DESCRIPTION: We will teach you how to make videos with Runway_GEN2, Kaiber and wonder dynamics, exploring how to work with AI for video

Session 5: Guest: Rômulo Moraes
DESCRIPTION: We explore the relationship between sound as a support for imagery in a narrative setting. 

READINGS: 

  • Music, Spirit Possession and the Copyright Law: Cross-Cultural Comparisons and Strategic

Speculations by Martin Rudoy Scherzinger

  1. A Theory of Vibe by Peli Grietzer

TOOLS: Sound Generation: Voice Over, SFX, Soundtrack

Session 6: SFX Sound

DESCRIPTION: We continue the creative experiments with music tools for the final result.

Session 7: Guest: Erica Love
DESCRIPTION: We discuss the relationship between the future of work and the arts.

READINGS: Text recommended by Erica Love:

  1. Marcel Broodthaers, Interview With A Cat, Recorded at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Düsseldorf, 1970.Audio in French or translation and transcription in English: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/136/538900/interview-with-a-cat/ 
  2. Yuk Hui, Imagination and the Infinite—A Critique of Artificial Imagination, Balkan Journal of Philosophy. Volume 15, Issue 1, 2023. 

TOOLS: Hugging Face, Google Research

OUTPUT: 1x Voice Over + 5x SFX + 1x Soundtrack

Session 8: Final Session

DESCRIPTION:

  • We watch all the final videos together and talk about what we have learned. 
  • Conversation about what will be the next logical steps for everyone

IMAGE: Impossible Cube, M.C. Escher, (for Belvedere, 1958)

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