Louis-Paul Caron

France

Artist Statement

AI is a new palette. A tool with its own strange beauty — one that lets oil painting speak to cinema, and video art echo tradition. Digital art, powered by AI, is a complete new emerging language. A space where disciplines converge and where new, collective visions can take root to tackle our future. I use it to merge the tactile and the digital, not for spectacle, but to carry a political message: about the state of the world, about what’s vanishing, and what we might still preserve. For me "Ecology" isn’t a theme : it’s the lens. The urgency. The reason to create.

AI Art experience

AI has given e the ability to create a new kind of artform, something at the border of classical art painting and digital animation. Blending sources from millions of online images, I believe that AI has the power to create universal images that speak to everyone, and as an artist engaged in social and climate action it is a fantastic opportunity.

Personal experience

My personal experience of making art has always been focused on art direction. I've always started my artpieces by collecting a large amount of inspiration, creating moodboard, storyboarding what would become later a complex 3D animation. Now with AI I'm able to focus more on art direction than on using complex and technical 3D softwares.

Unexpected thought

I'm always surprised by the AI generations I create, for me it's almost a collaboration in which I listen to AI creatives proposition. Most of the time they are random and pointless, but from time to time I get nice surprises. Lately I was working on a wild fire AI painting, and when I started to animate it suddenly a water Canadair plane came out of the smoke and flew away. AI can be very poetic sometimes.

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Louis-Paul Caron

France