“Me, Myself & AI” Project

The “Me, Myself & AI” project provides a unique opportunity for our Media arts students to explore the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. By comparing their interpretations of source prompts, such as song lyrics, poetry, lines from stories, or quotes, with the AI-generated art produced by Midjourney (using the same prompts), students can gain insights into the creative process and how different humans and machines are when it comes to producing creative artifacts.

Through brainstorming and the use of abstract concepts, students are challenged to think deeply about the source material and to express their ideas in unique and innovative ways. While working on their digital art, without being informed, the same prompts that inspired each piece were fed as data points to Midjourney to generate the AI image below each student’s work.

While it may be tempting to compare and judge the quality of the outputs in this project, the main focus of the student’s work is on their ability to think creatively and independently beyond the capabilities of the machine they are using.

Comprehensive Class

It’s been a long day without you, my friend, and I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.
– See You Again by Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth

Daniel C.

Walking down a broken, lonely road
I am here, but still in the past to friends and dreams, So far away.
I still walk, day by day
I feel something
I look down

An insect crushed underneath my foot
I gaze down and wonder how we are alike

It fights to escape my crushing feet just like me fighting back broken tears, but for who am I fighting forward for, for me? Or for those I left behind?

In the end, will I find peace? Will they return with joy and smiles?
Or will I fall, never find hope or love again?
But, ever on I walk, to hope or despair, I know not

– Broken Tears by Daniel Caines

An ambitiously and beautifully produced fever dream. Don’t wake me up. I want to stay in.
– by Jonathan Hickman

You’re face to face with the man who sold the world.
– by Nirvana (The Man Who Sold The World)

Aksa G.

La Petite Fille de la Mer (The Little Girl of the Sea)
– by Vangelis

I don’t need the stars, the moon, or the world if you bring me the sun.
– by Kaycyy Gesaffelstein

I don’t know who you are, But maybe we, in another life, Could fall in love, have it all And chase our daydreams But here we are, sitting across From one another on an empty train, Getting lost in thought.
– Trailgazing by Sam Wills, Honey Mooncie

Kat I.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.
– by William Shakespeare

For the sunrise after a long, dark night. For Women, Life and Freedom.
– Shervin Hajipour, 2022

I’ll be back.
– Arnold Schwartzenneger, Terminator

I don’t even know what I’m chasin’ no more.
– Post Malone

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine, body’s aching all
The time
Goodbye, everybody, I’ve got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooh
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.

– Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightning me

– Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen

To be is to be perceived.
– George Berkeley

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde

It’s getting colder
The nights are longer for me
The seasons are changing
And so are we

– Oceane by RINI

You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life.
– Sylvester Stallone in Rocky

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters, Nothing really matters to me
– Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen

He too was a tempter;
he, too, was a link to the second,
the evil world with which I no longer wanted to have anything to do.
– The Book of Damien by Hermann Hesse

Don’t count the days, make the days count.
– Muhammad Ali

iRAP Class

Sophia B.

I am not the only traveller
Who has not repaid his debt
I’ve been searching for a trail to follow again
Take me back to the night we met
– The Night We Met by Lord Huron

She from the jungle. I take somebody else’s car, drive it undercover.
– Drake

Alisa K.

Oh, who is she?
A misty memory
A haunting face
Is she a lost embrace?
Somewhere across the sea of time
A love immortal such as mine
Will come to me
Eternally
Immortal she
Return to me

– Who Is She? by I Monster

When I’m sober, I just don’t like who I am
Pour me up a four and I’ll feel like myself again
Roll me up some dope and I’ll feel like myself again
– Myself by Nav

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
– The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus

Madison S.

You are not here to conform.
I am here to take a look inside myself.
Recognize that I could be the eye, the eye of the storm.
– Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by MARINA