Our greatest gift to the world is
to do good with our story.

AIMAGINING is generating art through
human storying and artificial intelligence.

We are each gifted with the ability to manifest positivity and be the change we want to see in the world. Our life story is the most enduring range of experiences and the most valuable asset that we can grow through our lifetime.

Through the active listening and speaking process of storying, the curation of lived experience produces artworks generated by artificial intelligence.

CONSULTATION PROCESS

The AIMAGINING storying and artificial intelligence experience is conducted online and with consent through four (4) professional, action focussed, and solution-oriented consultations.

Dr. Alexander Hayes facilitates a human storying process, revealing powerful insights which generate creative visualizations. Participants register to engage in the AIMAGINING art generation consultation process and receive a copy of the storying transcription upon completion and a collection of high-resolution VQGAN and CLIP-generated artworks.

1 Registration & Storying

Participants are required to complete an online registration form to access the AIMAGINING service. The first online consultation* is storying scribed by the Facilitator.

2 Annotation & Generation

Excerpts of the story are annotated (highlighted) by the Participant with the Facilitator. These excerpts are then generated using artificial intelligence for reflective appreciation in the third consultation.

3 Reflection & Affirmation

Following a review of the storying artworks, the Participant is then encouraged to declare and generate positive affirmations.

4 Selection & Showcase

Participants review all artworks generated, then select specific works from their affirmations collection, for exhibition in the AIMAGINING website.

*Note: All consultations are conducted online in Whereby, a secure, encrypted web conference meeting provider.

Generated works by artist Paul Carstairs.

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åi.nvīsīon is a collection of VQGAN and CLIP creative works by artist Paul Carstairs. These works are derivative of affirmation textual selections, then generated through artificial intelligence (AI).

Magnificent, magical mayhem of wild
and exquisite creatures.

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'Exquisite Creatures' is a single-edition artwork collection by artist Alexander Hayes generated with artificial intelligence from human storying excerpts using neural network text-to-image VQGAN and CLIP model algorithms, producing 2048 pixel PNG images and variations.

ABOUT

ALEXANDER HAYES

Artist, Researcher, Engineer, Philanthropist, He / him / Dr.

Dr. Alexander Hayes is an expert in communications, information systems, and computing technologies, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy through the Faculty of Engineering & Information Systems at the University of Wollongong, NSW Australia. He also has degrees in Visual, Performing, and Fine Arts (Honours) and Education (Early Childhood).

With a creative portfolio spanning 25 years in the visual, performing, and generative arts, Hayes engages across multiple domains and disciplines as a practicing professional artist in works focussed on cultural frameworks and social commentary. Hayes is an avid entrepreneur, consultant, and researcher, describing himself as a polymath and versatilist, catalyzing social change through emancipatory human rights and social justice activity.

AFFIRMATION

Short future facing statements of positive accord focussed on positivity and well being.

AI

Artificial Intelligence - intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans - read more

AIMAGINING

Generative art creation experiences (AIART) melding human storying, and artificial intelligence.

ACT

Acceptance Commitment Therapy - a form of psychotherapy, as well as a branch of clinical behavior analysis, that invites people to open up to unpleasant feelings, learn not to overreact to them, and not avoid situations where they are invoked - read more

ANONYMISING

The process of removing details from the story for privacy or personal security reasons.

CONSULTATION

Meetings of between 90 and 120 minutes between the Host and Participant, conducted online via safe and secure web conferencing facilities.

EXHIBITION

Participants select six (6) from the generated one hundred (100) works for exhibition as a collection in the AImagining website.

FACT

Focussed and Acceptance Commitment Therapy - Short-term, solution-oriented therapy in an empirically based psychological intervention; using acceptance activity and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility - read more

GENERATIVE ART

Generative art refers to creative works which are either whole or in part created with the use of an autonomous system or algorithm. In the context of aimagining these artworks are generated from excerpts of text gathered during the human storying process - read more

LIFESTORY

The action of speaking out, recording, and generating alternate representations of a lived experience.

MINDFULNESS

noun. the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something; and verb. focusing one's awareness on the present moment, acknowledging and accepting feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations used in the FACT therapeutic technique.

PARTICIPANT

A person who has registered to engage in the storying and artwork generation process as the AImagining consultations.

POSITIVITY

The practice or tendency to be positive or optimistic in life ie. positive thinking, have positive emotions and engage with mindfulness in positive behaviors like kindness and generosity.

SCRIBING

The Host makes notes which are visible with and while listening to the Participant, copied and made accessible to the Participant at the conclusion of the process.

STORYING

noun. The action of telling a story or stories; and verb. the process of describing one's life story.

VQGAN & CLIP

Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network (VQGAN) and Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) algorithms - read more

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