Crafting Virtual Spaces with Creative AI: A case study of <i>Lux in Tenebris</i>

Dixon, Sophie

doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2023.31

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Crafting Virtual Spaces with Creative AI: A case study of Lux in Tenebris

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Author(s): Sophie Dixon

Publication date (Print): July 2023

Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2023 (EVA 2023)

Conference theme: Since 1990, the EVA London Conference has established itself as one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and interdisciplinary conferences in the field of digital visualisation. The papers and abstracts in this volume cover areas such as the arts, culture, heritage, museums, music, performance, visual art, and visualisation, as well as related interdisciplinary areas, in combination with technology. The latest research and work by early career researchers, established scholars, practitioners, research students, and visual artists, can be found in this volume, published in full colour.

Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Keywords: Museums and collections, Computer-generated imagery, 3D, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality

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This research paper discusses Lux in Tenebris (Light in Darkness), a Virtual Reality (VR) project developed during a digital artist residency at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. The final product, set to be publicly exhibited in 2023, was created using creative text-to-image artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Using the Deutsches Museum's collection of astronomical objects and research-inspired text prompts, the VR experience showcases new models, textures, and concepts that have been generated through the use of AI.

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Publication date: July 2023

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Pages: 179-186

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2023.31

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2023

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

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[1] M. Brückner, S. Isenstadt, and S. Wasserman (2021). Modelwork (p. ix). Minnesota Press.

[2] S. Dixon, 2021. Grace: A virtual recreation of the Grace Darling story. Proceedings of EVA London 2021, pp. 61–68.

[3] H. Kissinger, 2018. How the enlightenment ends. The Atlantic, 1.

[4] G. Manaugh (2015) The heliocentric pantheon: An interview with Walter Murch, BLDGBLOG. Available at: http://bldgblog.com/2007/04/the-heliocentric-pantheon-an-interview-with-walter-murch/ (Accessed: January 8, 2023).

[5] Midjourney (no date). Available at: http://www.midjourney.com/ (Accessed: January 7, 2023).

[6] Nomad (2017) Available at: http://sophie-dixon.com/Nomad (Accessed: January 7, 2023).

[7] OpenAI (2022) Dall·E 2, OpenAI. OpenAI. Available at: http://openai.com/dall-e-2/ (Accessed: January 7, 2023).

[8] Silke Dettmers (2008) On the necessity of wonder, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7:1, 37–55, DOI: 10.1386/jvap.7.1.37_1.