Presentation by Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, and Joyce Bettencourt, aka Rhiannon Chatnoir, for the AI & I Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at CDS. Topics featured AI Art, using GenAI for prompt engineering, resources from the Cengage Empowered Educator 2024 conference, and AI use cases and topic areas for future sessions.

1. AI & I Exhibition
Museum of
Contemporary Art
at CDS
March 1, 2024
Collected Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
Joyce Bettencourt
Rhiannon Chatnoir
about.me/JoyceBettencourt
Cynthia Calongne
Lyr Lobo
Colorado Technical University

2. Agenda
● Art and Creativity
● Tools
● GenAI for Prompt Engineering
● Cengage GenAI for Education
● Use Cases from AI-Summary.com
Calongne, C. (2023). AI for data management
in the cloud [Image]. Midjourney CC-By

3. AI Art and Creativity
Why Do We Design AI Art?
1. Enhance the Creative Process
2. Stimulate New Ideas
3. Explore Alternatives Fast
4. Accelerate Design Times
5. Improve Communication
6. Accelerate the Process
7. Refine the Workflow
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4. AI-Generated Content
AI can generate content by training algorithms
with large data sets to learn and be prompted to
create 2D & 3D art, make music and write copy.
ChatGPT - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
Google Bard - https://bard.google.com
Adobe Express - https://new.express.adobe.com
BlueWillow - https://www.bluewillow.ai
Craiyon - https://www.craiyon.com
DALL-E 2 - https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
Midjourney - https://www.midjourney.com
Night Cafe - https://creator.nightcafe.studio
Runway - https://runwayml.com
Stable Diffusion - https://beta.dreamstudio.ai
...and there are many more out there!
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5. What is Creativity?
Prompt
Imagine a young woman and a man,
walking through an Irish kelly green
scene, music and laughter all around
them, the sun shining, clouds lovely and
billowing, a song in the air as a fair
opens for the village to enjoy
Lyr Lobo (2023). An Irish couple walking to the fair [Image]. Midjourne CC-By.

6. Adobe
Using AI
ADOBE SENSEI uses AI and machine learning
to make it easier — helping you create
effortlessly, make informed decisions, and target
marketing for better results as it optimizes and
scales experiences with real-time intelligence.
ADOBE
FIREFLY
suite of AI tools

7. Adobe
Using AI
Photoshop
GENERATIVE FILL
can be used with
simple prompts or if
you just hit ENTER
it will create what it
thinks should go
there based on the
rest of the image.

8. Adobe
Using AI
Illustrator
GENERATIVE
RECOLOR
is AI-enabled
recoloring
vector artwork
with simple text
prompts to
achieve color
variations in
seconds.
Vector allows designers to scale their graphics, drawings,
and images infinitely with no impact on resolution.

9. Adobe
Using AI
ADOBE EXPRESS
is a free desktop
web app with
thousands of AI-
recommended
templates, removes
backgrounds from
photos, and
recommends
templates or fonts.
Also coming to iOS
and Android soon.
Adobe Express https://new.express.adobe.com

11. AI Faces are Improved
The game Grounded asked
players to create artwork. Prompt:
Imagine children in a fantasy style
as warriors in the backyard the size
of the children in Honey I shrunk
the Kids , fighting insects and
running through blades of grass
taller than their heads
Calongne, C. (2023). Children as backyard warriors
in Grounded [Image]. Midjourney CC-By

12. What Are Prompts?
Prompts are descriptions in natural language
that act as an input for AI text and art
generators, such as ChatGPT, DALL.E 2,
Midjourney, Stable DIffusion, and other
machine learning models.
Prompts can be as simple as a single line of
text, or they can be highly descriptive or vague.
Prompts can also be images.
Crafting prompts is an art form in itself,
discovering inputs that yield desirable or useful
results. You can add extra parameters to your
prompt to refine the image results you get back.
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13. Turn ChatGPT into a Midjourney Prompt Generator
Wolff (2023) provides a step-by-step guide to
defining a prompt template and refining your prompts
using ChatGPT.
His recommendations include using ChatGPT as an
output for batch processing using PREFIX, SCENE,
and SUFFIX.
See the example template on the next slide.
Prompt:
Imagine a surreal visualization of a woman
standing at brink of the future amid a wash of
color and sound, filled with hope and a joy for life
Calongne, C. (2023). Gazing into the future [Image]. Midjourney CC-By

14. Prompt Template from Wolff (2023)
Wolff, T. (2023). Turn ChatGPT into a Midjourney prompt generator: A step-by-step guide. Medium.
https://medium.com/the-generator/turn-chatgpt-into-a-midjourney-prompt-generator-a-step-by-step-
guide-d447479f8a48

15. AI - Image Generation - Diffusion Models
Image generator prompts work best when you format
them similar to how image captions are formatted.
Prompts can include things like:
● adding nouns/names of your subject,
● descriptive adjectives
● medium you want the art to look like it was
created in
● style and artist names you want your artwork
inspired by
● quality and dimensions,
● should the image be realistic, photographic,
illustrative, computer graphics rendered?
AI - Transformers: Large
Language Models (Google
Bard, ChatGPT, etc)
These models gather lots of
text knowledge (from the
internet, books, social media,
etc.) and when prompted,
they use this to guess what
content to give based off of
instructions given and what
they know. This can include
making up things!
Generally better at editing
than creating.
Prompt format: Role,
Task/Action, Background
/imagine
Prompt Engineering
“Instant Insights” mage courtesy Trust Insights -
https://www.trustinsights.ai/promptsheet Image courtesy of https://medium.com/@pythoslabs

16. AI Art and Creativity –
Examples follow
Why Does Creativity Matter in STEM?
1. Dream Big
2. Envision the Future
3. Test Your Ideas
4. Reflect on the Impossible
5. Crossover Boundaries
6. Strengthen the Spirit
7. Enflame the Imagination
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17. Midjourney’s Settings
In Discord’s Midjourney channel,
type /settings and the Enter key
The menu on the right displays.
The higher settings may use more
resources and increase costs.

18. Using Midjourney and BlueWillow
Both Midjourney and BlueWillow use Discord as the tool you use to interface with while
generating AI artwork. If you go directly to Midjourney or BlueWillow’s website, they’ll link you to
their corresponding Discord server. Midjourney and BlueWillow can be added to your own server.
AvaCon.org has installed both of these onto their server! Go to: https://discord.gg/Ab9QDZM
In AvaCon’s server, you’ll see various channel rooms listed on the left. Scroll down to AI TOOLS
and under this you’ll see 2 channels, one for BlueWillow & one for Midjourney. Click one one of
these channels, then use the Message area at the bottom to type your prompts & text.
In the message box, type in: /imagine
Then either click and select Midjourney or BlueWillow if you see them pop up or simply hit enter
You will then get a prompt box where you can type the text description of the image you want.
After you type your prompt, hit enter / return again and it will start the AI Generation process!

19. Cengage Empowered
Educator
Exploring GenAI in Higher Education
● 18 Webinars (scroll right)
● Resources & Handouts
Using GenAI in Course Design, Delivery,
Assessment, Grading, and Student Feedback
Cengage Learning, Inc. (2024, February 14-15). Exploring
GenAI in higher education [Videos]. Empowered Educator.
https://www.cengage.com/empowered-educator/spring2024/
Calongne, C. (2023). Designing and teaching courses using
Generative AI [Image]. Midjourney CC-By

20. ai-summary.com
A AI News
What is AI?
Use Cases

21. Resources
Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j3
zfQRCVh598IzCfEp7rsoxqxjMnd82fRP8d4
g3tojw/edit?usp=sharing
Resource Doc -
https://bit.ly/VWMOOC23-STEAMy-AI
Try out BlueWillow & Midjourney on
AvaCon’s Discord server -
https://discord.gg/Ab9QDZM
AI Generated Content Pinterest board -
https://www.pinterest.com/avatarjoy/aigc/
Adobe Firefly - https://firefly.adobe.com
BlueWillow - https://www.bluewillow.ai
Midjourney - https://docs.midjourney.com
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