Media Arts and Technology

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09.29 SBMA Exhibition Visit Comment on the works presented at the SBMA exhibition "Random Access Memory": https://www.sbma.net/index%2ephp/exhibitions/random-access-memory-internet-art and https://clairesophie.com/#ghost-coaster-the-star-jet-coaster-2002- Describe a couple of the works and your imp...

10.15 XY Plot An XY plot in ComfyUI is a grid of generated images that lets you compare how changing two settings affects the results. shawXY_seed42_cfg.png shawXY_sampler_Scheduler.png shawXY_randomSeed_cfg2.png shawXY_schedule_randomSeed.png The assignment includes the following: 1) Import any of...

10:01 Text to Image | Prompt Exploration This assignment explores studies in creating images with text prompts using this attached json or the image. To use the json, copy the text into a text file, and change the ending to .json. { "1": { "inputs": { "ckpt_name": "flux1-schnell-fp8.safetensors" },...

10.08 Image to Image First review the description of samplers: https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/26f255/samplers.pdf and the workflow sequence: https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/26f255/workflow.pdf The asignment is to explore the combination of text-to-image (t...

10.22 Style Transfer Style transfer is a computational technique developed by Leon Gatys: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576 that combines the content of one image with the visual style of another. styleTransferGatys.png For example, a photograph of a car can retain its recognizable shape and composi...

10.29 LORA & ControlNet LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) changes what the model knows. It’s a small set of extra weights trained on a handful of images (often 10–50) to teach the model a new subject, style, or concept, such as a particular car, a person’s face, or a painter’s brushwork. It works by addin...

11.19 AnimateDiff

Animate still image