Visions Of Destruction: Exploring Human Impact on Nature by Navigating the Latent Space of a Diffusion Model through the Gaze
Mar Canet Sola and Varvara Guljajeva (2024)
Abstract
This paper discusses the artwork "Visions of Destruction", with a primary conceptual focus on the Anthropocene, which is communicated through audience interaction and generative AI as artistic research methods. Gazebased interaction transitions the audience from mere observers to agents of landscape transformation, fostering a profound, on-the-edge engagement with pressing issues such as climate change and planetary destruction. The paper looks into early references of interactive art history that deploy eyetracking as a method for audience interaction, and presents recent AI-aided artworks that demonstrate interactive latent space navigation.
Venue: International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24).