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by zixuan241
Tue Feb 03, 2026 10:53 am
Forum: Winter 2026
Topic: Project 2: Images Created Using the ComfyGUI Interface
Replies: 2
Views: 790

Re: Project 2: Images Created Using the ComfyGUI Interface

These images were achieved through iterative refinement of model selection, prompt structure, and ControlNet parameters. A realistic checkpoint was chosen to support cinematic lighting and material continuity, while overly illustrative models were excluded to avoid narrative or painterly effects. Pr...
by zixuan241
Thu Jan 29, 2026 11:12 am
Forum: Winter 2026
Topic: Project 2: Images Created Using the ComfyGUI Interface
Replies: 2
Views: 790

Re: Project 2: Images Created Using the ComfyGUI Interface

Practice 1 This image explores the transformation of familiar food objects into soft felt-like materials, blurring the boundary between edible textures and handcrafted textiles. By combining realistic lighting with woolen surfaces, the work invites viewers to reconsider material perception and tacti...
by zixuan241
Thu Jan 22, 2026 5:18 pm
Forum: Winter 2026
Topic: Project 1: Automata1111 Interface
Replies: 5
Views: 982

Re: Project 1: Automata1111 Interface

In-Class Practice: Prompt: an abstract human face emerging from architectural forms, cubist composition inspired by Picasso, facial features fragmented and misaligned, soft pastel colors, dreamlike, poetic, architectural anatomy. Negative: realistic face, photography, symmetrical portrait, anime, hy...
by zixuan241
Thu Jan 22, 2026 11:53 am
Forum: Winter 2026
Topic: Project 1: Automata1111 Interface
Replies: 5
Views: 982

Re: Project 1: Automata1111 Interface

Project 1: From Private Memory to Urban Palimpsest This project follows the development and progression of memory, beginning with the inner, personal space and continuing outward toward the collective, dense space of the urban environment. Beginning with the isolated, aged figure in the personal, pr...
by zixuan241
Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:18 am
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: wk8 11.11/11.13: Artificial Neural Networks | CNN | Style Transfer, Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 14
Views: 17960

Re: wk8 11.11/11.13: Artificial Neural Networks | CNN | Style Transfer, Artificial Intelligence

This week, what left the deepest impression on me was Fencing Hallucination by Qiu Weihao. The striking element of this piece is how it brings media art and AI together to reimagine early photographic techniques. Through encouraging AI avatars with a series of physical movements of viewers, itinerar...
by zixuan241
Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:36 pm
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: 11.25: Final Project Presentations
Replies: 9
Views: 16536

Re: 11.25: Final Project Presentations

From Spatial Perception to Machine Vision: How Machines Understand Space Zixuan Zhang — MAT 200A Final Project The research focuses on the existing gaps between human spatial perception and machine vision systems, drawing insights from the realms of artificial intelligence, media art, and robotics s...
by zixuan241
Sun Nov 30, 2025 10:16 pm
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: wk7 11.04/11.06: Digital Object | Digital Fabrication, Robotics | Automation
Replies: 14
Views: 19299

Re: wk7 11.04/11.06: Digital Object | Digital Fabrication, Robotics | Automation

Sketch Chair, created by FRONT, redefines the relationship between drawing and making by translating abstract freehand sketches into three-dimensional physical products using motion capture technology. In such an approach, designers do not view drawings as two-dimensional images; instead, the proces...
by zixuan241
Wed Nov 19, 2025 7:26 pm
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: wk6 10.28/10.30: Emergence, Self-Organization, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality | Methodology Guidelines
Replies: 14
Views: 21342

Re: wk6 10.28/10.30: Emergence, Self-Organization, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality | Methodology Guidelines

You Only Have Seven Seconds is a fusion of filmmaking and installation art to represent the development of memory visually. The artist leverages an AI network to convert whispered memories from thousands of visitors to “synthetic visual” images, thereby generating an ever-expanding “memory” database...
by zixuan241
Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:05 am
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: Project Idea: First presentation
Replies: 5
Views: 16945

Re: Project Idea: First presentation

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG27rWBzo8/_DuOQ0zUJM_Q2O5beAbS8g/edit This is the link for our PowerPoint. This project is a collaborative study between Gao Xue and me, inspired by and based on our reconstruction of Rodger Luo’s project created seven years ago. Luo’s original work explored how multip...
by zixuan241
Mon Nov 03, 2025 10:59 am
Forum: Fall 2025
Topic: wk5 10.21/10.23 Systems Art, Generative Art, Algorithmic Art, Bio Art, Biometrics, Bio Data
Replies: 14
Views: 26418

Re: wk5 10.21/10.23 Systems Art, Generative Art, Algorithmic Art, Bio Art, Biometrics, Bio Data

"Thousand Layers of Drift," a visual installation piece, was produced by Jeju Biennale, a group of artists. This artwork utilizes data about ocean currents' pathways in a way that immerses the viewer in a visual experience of data as flow, light, shadow, and rhythm. Entering this data-filled gallery...