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(GIST OF YOJANA) FROM THE ART WITH INTELLIGENCE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

(MARCH-2024)

FROM THE ART WITH INTELLIGENCE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Context:

We did not have artificial intelligence during ancient times, but we had a plethora of art with remarkable intelligence. Early humans developed such significant art with their intelligence. For example, art made of stone and ivory, pottery, metallurgy, textile manufacture, bead-making, wood-carving, cart-making, cave¬ painting, etc. If one defines technology as a human way of altering, we have evidence of stone tools in the Indian subcontinent for more than two million years. During the first urbanisation in India, which took place between 2600 and 1900 BCE, the Harappan civilisation emerged as a significant example.

Visual Art

This art form is tangible, meaning it can be touched to feel. These art forms are usually solid forms that an artist makes. Cinema is an excellent example of visual imagination depiction. In this digital era, we can use new technologies to create a visual imagination of our cultural places, cultural attire, etc, with less effort and on a minimum budget. Today, With the help of new technology, one can depict anything as much as one can imagine. So, there is a strong reason we have today to support and use this new digital innovation in our art and culture, especially in cinema.

Painting

We see no use of technology from the Mesolithic rock cave paintings to the Renaissance paintings. But today's art form is highly digitised, where an artist makes any painting using hardware and software. These paintings are helpful in many types of design, like jewellery design and fashion design.

Sculpture

Since ancient times, people have used clay or any form of clay to make this form of art, but in today's digitised world 3D techniques are being used to make digital sculptures, or one can say the digital impression of a sculpture, which is based on projection technology where lights are projected on a surface to create a shape of either an human or an object which looks sometimes very real and live.

Architecture

Architecture is usually the art of making giant monuments and buildings, but to manage this art, digital technology is highly required, from exploration to excavation. From remote sensing to aerial exploration, we gather the calculative data required to make an architecture.

Performing Art

This art form is intangible, meaning it cannot be touched but can be felt psychologically. These art forms consist of facial and physical expressions.

Dance

The dance art form is very ancient, but new experiments are being tried in the digital world. We can now see laser lighting where a person is dancing, but in darkness, we see only the movements of various lights. This is unique and fun for the young generation.

Music

This is also a very ancient and loveable art, where an artist sings with an instrument. Before modern times, these things were natural, but in today's world, digitisation is being used. Even if a person has average voice quality, he or she can make it melodious by using the technology of 'Auto-Tune'. Instruments are also now digitally played to synchronise the voices of artists.

Cinematography

Theatre artists are the real artists who attract the audience with their powerful voices and expressions, but things have changed with the extensive use of VFX technology and Voice in cinema. It is now very easy to shoot any cinema off-location where you don't need the actual location.

Conclusion:

Although digital technology is used in almost all art forms, making it more exciting and accessible, it sometimes gives audiences unrealistic pleasure. Hence, the motive of true art fails. We might need to restrict ourselves or create boundaries for how much we use digital technology.