This is an AI Art class that requires no coding background or any tech fees.   I've created a simple app with a friendly interface that allows the user to make AI Art using text boxes and sliders only.  We will of course learn about Colab and some Python but the emphasis is on learning how to use the different dials and text boxes to make amazing images.   

We can choose what to draw, what not to draw, how much creativity, how much computation, which model to use, what size of image, and that's just the beginning.  We can use inpainting, outpainting, image to image, pix2pix, etc.  so that we can better express our artistic side.

This is a multi-stage process where we experiment and create candidate images to pass through other AI image models to get to our final output.  

We will also spent quite a bit of time on prompt engineering, which is the art of making a text request to an AI.  Here we  tell the AI what to draw but ChatGPT also uses this concept.

Each week we will share the work we've created away from class and I will bring a suggested topic/genre for us to work on.  We will also explore artists's styles and how to bring certain effects into our images.  If there is interest, we will  explore other image generators such as Lexica.art, Dall-E, and Midjourney.  These services are paid but I will give free demos and work interactively with the students.

If students have school projects that require images, I can help them with that as well.

Each week we will add new techniques to our arsenal and we will be adding images to our portfolio so that you will have a collection of images to show your friends and family and to serve as inspiration for your future studies.  The schedule below is a rough estimation and can change somewhat depending on student composition and interest

Week of 8/1/2023: The AI Art Colab APP
Week of 8/8/2023: Prompt Engineering, Lexica.art
Week of 8/15/2023: Image to Image AI Art and ControlNet, Midjourney
Week of 8/22/2023: Inpainting/Outpainting, Dall-E
Week of 8/22/2023: AI Art Games: MartLibs, ArtAuction, Survival of the Beautiest