{"id":8126,"date":"2022-09-02T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:52:50","slug":"colorado-artist-used-artificial-intelligence-program-midjourney-to-win-first-place-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8126","title":{"rendered":"Colorado artist used artificial intelligence program Midjourney to win first place"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/09\/02\/midjourney-artificial-intelligence-state-fair-colorado\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/A3TGEPH7PVCIZCYJ3YBITBM42M.png&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Jason Allen submitted his \u201cTh\u00e9\u00e2tre D\u2019op\u00e9ra Spatial\u201d into the Colorado State Fair\u2019s fine arts competition last week, the sumptuous print was an immediate hit. It also marked a new milestone in the growth of artificial intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There has been a lot of comment about how a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/09\/02\/midjourney-artificial-intelligence-state-fair-colorado\/\">Colorado artist used artificial intelligence program Midjourney to win first place<\/a>. This is seen as historic, but, as is pointed out in the Washington Post piece, people weren&#8217;t sure photography is an art. You could say that in both cases the art is in selection, not the image making that is taken over by a machine.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help thinking that an important part of art is the making. When I make art things they are amateurish and wouldn&#8217;t win any prizes, but I enjoy the making and improving at making. Having played with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midjourney.com\/home\/\">Midjourney<\/a> it does have some of the pleasures of creating, but now the creation is through iteratively trying different combinations of words.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has story about the win too, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/02\/technology\/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.html\">An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren\u2019t Happy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jason Allen submitted his \u201cTh\u00e9\u00e2tre D\u2019op\u00e9ra Spatial\u201d into the Colorado State Fair\u2019s fine arts competition last week, the sumptuous print was an immediate hit. It also marked a new milestone in the growth of artificial intelligence. There has been a lot of comment about how a Colorado artist used artificial intelligence program Midjourney to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colorado artist used artificial intelligence program Midjourney to win first place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,54,8,58,43,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-big-data","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-fabrication","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}