With the demonstrator ‘Co-Creative: Create Art Yourself with Artificial Intelligence,’ inIT presents another contribution to the special exhibition ‘A Kind of Art. Artificial Intelligence Meets (Weser) Renaissance’ at the Weser Renaissance Museum in Brake Castle. It was developed by Nico Baumgart, a research assistant in the Mathematics and Data Science working group headed by Prof. Dr. Markus Lange-Hegermann. The demonstrator shows how artificial intelligence can be used to create a realistic image from an idea modelled with building blocks.
Forms, prompts and image ideas
The demonstrator invites visitors to get involved themselves: building blocks are used to create a shape, the height profile of which is captured by a depth camera and converted into a greyscale image. This greyscale image is transferred together with a prompt to a diffusion model, which generates a colour image from it. Depending on the input, this results in very different motifs.
Three styles to choose from
Visitors can choose between three categories that determine the style of the image generated: an artistic work in the style of the Weser Renaissance, a futuristic vision, or a realistic bird's-eye view landscape photograph. It is worth making several attempts without changing the building block structure. The AI does not follow human thinking, but interprets each combination of form and prompt in its own way, which is sometimes understandable, but sometimes surprising or unexpected.
Inspiration through interaction
‘Artificial intelligence can be a useful addition to creative processes,’ says Nico Baumgart. ‘Interacting with AI can help ideas mature or give rise to entirely new ideas.’ The demonstrator offers a playful approach to the topic of AI and shows that technology is not at odds with creativity, but can open up new perspectives.
Special exhibition until mid-December
With its special exhibition ‘A Kind of Art’, the Weser Renaissance Museum at Brake Castle builds a bridge between the past and the future. It can be seen at Brake Castle in Lemgo until 14 December 2025. Visitors can discover various facets and applications of artificial intelligence there.
Further information is available at: https://museum-schloss-brake.de/portfolio_page/akindofart/