Direction
A physical mark, sketch or material impulse establishes the idea, emotional territory and visual problem.
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CAC
Computer-
Assisted
Creation
The tools assist.
The artist decides.
The process
Computer-Assisted Creation - CAC - is a term for an artist-directed process combining human imagination with digital and computational tools.
The process may involve drawing, photography, writing, generative models, image editing, digital compositing, 3D development and advanced production techniques. Each tool performs a different function, but none determines the final artwork.
CAC is not art made independently by a computer. Technology expands the studio's possibilities while artistic intention, judgement and authorship remain human.
Every work begins away from the screen - a hand drawing, a small colour sketch, a mark made before any digital tool is chosen.
Digitisation comes after, never instead of.Generation
Images, forms and possibilities are developed through multiple physical and digital tools.
Selection
Most results are rejected. The remaining elements are transformed and combined.
Resolution
Colour, structure, material, scale and production are refined into the final work.
The studio reality
It Begins
by Hand
The artwork does not begin with AI. It begins with the hand.
The sketch is then digitised and enlarged. Vector drawing and image-editing tools become extensions of the original drawing surface - used to reconstruct forms, explore composition, develop colour and transform small physical gestures into images capable of working at architectural scale.
The artwork is also developed through language. Titles, formats, relationships between works and the identity of a series are considered and documented in writing. Historical and contextual research helps examine references, question interpretations and deepen the territory surrounding the work.
Generative systems may be directed to develop visual material or explore specific possibilities. Their results are never treated as completed artworks. They become working material: examined, selected, rejected, cropped, combined, reconstructed and transformed. Colour, light, surface and atmosphere are refined through further digital and physical work.
The process is not strictly linear. Drawing, research, writing, image development and physical experimentation may repeat as the work moves between hand, screen, idea and material. Even when digitally mastered, its origin remains physical and its development human-directed.
The tools assist.
The artist decides.
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