Computer Graphics emerged about half a century ago. It is dedicated to exploring the making of graphics and images with the assistance of computers. Back then, it would take a creator a whole year to make a two-minute computer animation. After about 20 years of development, since the 1990s, computer vision technology began to be widely used in film and television production. Since 2000, computer animation has become a mainstream type of animated film. The history of AI generating paintings, animations, etc., can also be traced back to technologies like computer graphics. Today, the rapid development of various AI technologies opens up various new possibilities for film and television production by the use of computers. We find more and more AI tools that can assist us in telling stories. For example, the computer is able to generate a video upon the instruction of a fine textual description.
In the exhibition "WangShui: poiesis" presented by Rockbund Art Museum, WangShui's process usually involves collaboratively generating images with artificial intelligence (AI). Here, the artist presents a mix of paintings made with AI and others made without, engaging equally with various other elements such as atmospheric conditions and historical research. This exhibition attempts to divert the audience's attention to the artist's creative process and the progress in a broader time and space; it tries to introduce a new perception that cannot be seized by the visible "results", and to ask its audience: How do we break through our conventional understanding of AI, language, and images and place these elements on the artist's workbench?
We invited three instructors from "二十面体 (a magazine)" to bring us the workshop on April 15 (Saturday). In the sharing and workshop, the instructors will start from the history of computer graphics, introduce the possibilities that various AI technologies bring to image creation, and bring everyone to make AI animations and experience the process of generating content in collaboration with AI.
计算机图形学（Computer Graphics）兴起于约半个世纪以前，它致力于探索如何在计算机的帮助下制作图形和图像。在当时，创作者若要用计算机完成一个两分钟的计算机动画创作，可能需要花上一整年的时间。经过20年左右的发展，自上世纪90年代开始，计算机视觉技术开始被广泛应用在影视创作中。而在千禧年之后，计算机动画更是成为了动画电影的主流。AI 生成绘画、动画等形式的历史亦可追溯至计算机图形学等技术。在今天，各类 AI 技术的飞速发展让我们看到了使用电脑进行影视创作的各种新的可能性，有越来越多的AI工具可以辅助我们讲故事，例如，只需要在电脑上输入一段精确的文字描述，电脑即可生成一段影像。
在上海外滩美术馆正在展览的“王水：生生”（WangShui: poiesis）中，艺术家王水的创作过程涉及与AI合作生成图像，艺术家呈现了一系列使用AI生成的画作和一系列不使用AI生成的画作，并平等地调入其它多样元素。本次展览试图将观众的注意力向艺术家的创作过程和更大时空范围内的进程倾斜，试图引入一种无法被可视的“结果”所直接引导的感知方式，并向自我发问：我们如何突破自身关于AI、语言、图像的认识框架，并将这些元素置于艺术家的工作台呢？
在4月15日（周六），我们请到了二十面体的三位导师为大家带来“AI幽灵与图像创作工作坊”。在这一次的分享与工作坊中，导师将从计算机图形学的历史出发，为大家介绍各类 AI 技术给影像创作带来的可能性，并带大家一起动手制作AI动画，亲自体验与AI合作生成内容的过程。
