🌸点字デジタルアートとは🌸Braille digital art🌸
Concept
Braille Digital Art is a comprehensive art form that creates new value through diverse senses and interpretations, fostering collaboration between visually impaired and sighted individuals, as well as AI and experts. It also aims to build an inclusive society where everyone can share in the same inspiration.
Overview
Unlike traditional Braille art, which primarily focuses on “appreciation,” Braille Digital Art emphasizes the active participation of visually impaired individuals in the creative process.
Production Process (Palette Voice)
- Visually Impaired Artist’s Creative Intent: Visually impaired individuals clearly define the themes and images they wish to express.
- Prompt Creation and Analysis: Painters and system engineers create a Multimodal Prompt Format that AI can understand, based on the visually impaired artist’s creative intent. This involves in-depth, psychological analysis of the creative intent through dialogue.
- AI Image Generation and Revision: An image generation AI creates images based on the analysis. The most crucial part of this process, Sense Building, involves painters and system engineers revising the images to reflect the visually impaired (artist’s) intentions.
- Artwork Output and Exhibition: The final artwork is outputted on monitors or Braille printers. Sighted individuals appreciate the generated images, Braille, and audio, while visually impaired individuals experience the artwork through audio descriptions and tactile graphics.
Features and Significance
The greatest features of Braille Digital Art are its focus on the agency of visually impaired individuals, the utilization of AI technology, and its nature as a comprehensive art form created through co-creation with experts.
By combining generated images, tactile graphics, and audio, it achieves diverse forms of expression that both visually impaired and sighted individuals can enjoy.
This is not merely an application of AI technology to welfare; it’s an attempt to pursue new “meaning” that emerges from it.
Braille Digital Art, while resembling the workshops of the Renaissance and the division of labor in Ukiyo-e woodblock printing, enables more complex expressions through the introduction of AI technology.
Collaboration Between Humans and AI
Braille Digital Art, while leveraging the power of AI, is an area where human wisdom, experience, and above all, artistic sensibility are indispensable.
AI can be a powerful tool for recognizing patterns and generating from large amounts of data, streamlining the creative process, and proposing new expressions that humans might not conceive of.
However, AI has the following limitations:
- Understanding Intent and Emotion: It is difficult for AI to understand and express complex elements such as the artist’s intent, emotions, and experiences.
- Creativity and Originality: True creativity and originality in generating something genuinely new are currently considered challenging for AI.
- Tactile Understanding: It is difficult for AI to fully mimic the elements of Braille understood through touch or human tactile experiences.
- Interpretation of Context and Meaning: It is not easy for AI to understand the cultural, historical, and social contexts of art and to add depth to a work.
- Individuality and Authorship: It is difficult for AI to establish authorship with a unique perspective and expression method.
Therefore, human involvement is indispensable in Braille Digital Art. The determination of the core concept and intent of the work, the reflection of life experiences and cultural background, aesthetic sensibility and composition, consideration for tactility, trial and error and revision, and the role of imbuing the work with soul and emotion can only be fulfilled by human wisdom and sensibility.
The perspective holds that AI is merely a tool to augment human creativity, and genuinely meaningful Braille Digital Art cannot be realized without human intervention.
A Reporter’s Question
To a reporter’s question about the essence of Braille Digital Art, “Is it merely an evaluation by visually impaired individuals?”, we responded as follows:
From “Visual Art” to “Multi-Sensory Art” Traditional “art” heavily relies on sight, but Braille Digital Art is proposed as a “multimodal (multi-sensory) art” that integrates touch, hearing, and sight (for sighted individuals).
This is not merely compensating for a lack of visual information. By maximizing and fusing senses other than sight, we believe it creates a new realm previously unattainable in art, establishing itself as a more “multi-sensory art.”
The Role of “Co-creation” by AI and Painters AI is a tool that objectively shapes instructions, but it cannot reproduce complex human memories or emotions.
Here, the painter’s role is to “translate” and “expand” the visually impaired artist’s “inner image and creative intent” into a richer and more diverse sensory experience, mediated by the “digital information” generated by AI.
The painter understands the multilayered meanings behind words, provides appropriate instructions to the AI, and through repeated conversations with the visually impaired artist and their approval, shapes the generated images into emotionally rich expressions.
This enables the “respect for the artistic intent” and the “maximization of expression” of the visually impaired artist.
“Comprehensive Evaluation by Experiencers” Not “Evaluation by Visually Impaired Individuals” Braille Digital Art aims for diverse people, including both visually impaired and sighted individuals, to create and appreciate art using their respective senses.
Therefore, its evaluation is not merely about “how visually impaired individuals feel.” It also includes whether the expression “brings a new visual and multi-sensory experience to sighted individuals as well.”
The essence of art lies in appealing to the sensibility and thoughts of the viewer, inspiring new insights and emotions. By presenting the artist’s inner world through diverse channels, Braille Digital Art aims to generate “discovery” and “empathy,” which can serve as universal evaluation criteria for its value.
Conclusion
Art that Carefully Understands Each Individual’s Image and Fosters Empathy
In the creation of Braille Digital Art, it is extremely important to carefully understand the image and creative intent of each visually impaired artist, respecting and expressing their inner world.
Since the nature of images varies greatly depending on the timing and degree of visual impairment, individual experiences, memories, and dominant senses, individual dialogue and approaches are essential.
Braille Digital Art is not merely art for the visually impaired; it aims for “people with all senses to explore new horizons of art they have never experienced before, through their respective senses.”
The painter’s role is to “translate” and “expand” the visually impaired artist’s “voice of the soul” into a form that can be expressed with the greatest richness and diversity of senses, using AI as a tool.
And its ultimate evaluation, we believe, lies in “how the visually impaired artist’s intent resonates with the sensibilities of diverse viewers, creating new inspiration and empathy.”
This aims not merely for “an evaluation of the expression of visually impaired individuals, but for an evaluation as a truly inclusive art that expands the possibilities of all human senses and generates empathy.”
We strongly believe that Braille Digital Art, with the creativity of interpretation at its core and co-creation between humans and AI, can transcend existing artistic frameworks and establish its significance as a new artistic expression for diverse people to understand and empathize with each other’s worlds.
Braille Digital Art
The final artwork is outputted on monitors or Braille printers. Sighted individuals appreciate the generated images, Braille, and audio, while visually impaired individuals experience the artwork through audio descriptions and tactile graphics.
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