chrisemezue/african-seeds-art

African Seeds Art is committed to amplifying Indigenous African seeds through the medium of mixed media artworks. Dawa seeds which was used for this model is an African millet seed. Dawa seeds were used to create concepts in arts, and this is a source of inspiration to train the model to learn about the dawa concept to create AI artworks. # African Seeds Art African Seeds Art is committed to amplifying Indigenous African seeds through the medium of mixed media artworks. Dawa seeds which was used for this model is an African millet seed. Dawa seeds were used to create concepts in arts, and this is a source of inspiration to train the model to learn about the dawa concept to create AI artworks. ## Motivation African seeds art 2021 is an artificial intelligence (AI) procreated creation with mixed media artworks made with African seeds. Dawa seeds which was used to create the mixed media artworks is a class of the African millet seed. Nefertiti Emezue used the Dawa seeds to create mixed media artworks and together with Chris Emezue, they trained the model to assimilate and interpret the artwork to create an AI artwork. For this project, we used Deep Daze model, a text to image generation model that uses OpenAI's CLIP and Siren (Implicit neural representation network). By configuring the model on a joint optimization task of both the image and the text (interpretation of the dawa image), the model learns to create abstract interpretations of the text while trying represent an art close to the dawa art as possible. ## Our Work In this project, we work with three unique artworks of Nefertiti Emezue which were created with African seeds. #### African Seeds artworks and their interpretation Picture of artwork | Title of artwork | Full Interpretation (for Setup A) | One-sentence interpretation (for Setup B) ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | Education Connecting the World Dawa art | This artwork represents the connections of education and the globe. This artwork represents the idea that education serves as a unifying factor between countries of the World. | Global education connects the world. | African Bride Seed Art | This artwork captures the state of an excited Nigerian bride who comes out during the traditional wedding ceremony to find her husband.| A Gleeful Nigerian bri …