DALL E 2: Extending Creativity

Creative professionals using DALL E today range from illustrators, AR designers, and authors to chefs, landscape architects, tattoo artists and clothing designers, directors, sound designers, dancers, and more. The list is expanded every day.

Here are some examples of how artists are making use of this new technology:

the orrigos

James and his wife Kristin Orrigo created the Big Dreams Virtual Tour which focuses on creating special memories and a positive distraction for pediatric cancer patients around the world. The Orrigos have worked at the best children’s hospitals across the country and now meet virtually with families, bringing children’s ideas to life through personalized cartoons, music videos and mobility-friendly video games. Orrigo says kids and teens light up when they see their DALL E-generated creations, ready to be the star of a story brought to life from their imaginations.

Most recently, Orrigo and his team have been working with a young cancer survivor named Gianna to create a music video featuring her as Wonder Woman fighting her enemy: cancer cells.

“We didn’t know what an osteosarcoma villain would look like, so we turned to DALL·E as our creative outlet. DALL·E gave us a lot of inspiration,” said Orrigo. “Unfortunately, Gianna knows this battle all too well. But we’re celebrating her victory by bringing her cartoon music video to life to raise awareness for pediatric cancer and give Gianna an unforgettable memory.”

Stefan Kutzenberger

In a project conceived by Austrian artist Stefan Kutzenberger and Clara Blume, Director of the Open Austria Art + Tech Lab in San Francisco, DALL E was used to bring the poetry of the revolutionary painter Egon Schiele to the visual world. Schiele died at the age of 28, but Kutzenberger, curator of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which houses the world’s largest collection of Schiele’s works, believes that DALL E gives the world a glimpse of what later work might have looked like. of Schiele if he had had the opportunity to continue painting. DALL·E’s works will be exhibited alongside the Schiele collection at the Leopold Museum in the coming months.

karen x cheng

karen x chenga director known for sharing her creative experiments on Instagram, created the latest cosmopolitan magazine cover using DALL E. In her post revealing the process, Karen likened working with DALL·E to a musician playing an instrument.

“Like any musical instrument, it improves with practice… and knowing what words to use to communicate? That’s a community effort – it came out of the last few months where I’ve been talking to other DALL E artists on Twitter/Discord/DM. I learned from other artists that you could ask for specific camera angles. Types of lenses. Lighting conditions. We are all figuring out together how to play this beautiful new instrument.”

tom aviv

Israeli chef and MasterChef winner tom aviv is premiering his first American restaurant in Miami in a few months and has used DALL·E for inspiration for the menu, decoration and atmosphere, and his team has also used DALL·E to design the way they serve the dishes.

It was Tom’s sister and business partner Kim’s idea to carry out a family recipe for chocolate mousse through DALL·E.

“It’s called Picasso chocolate mousse and it’s a tribute to my parents,” he explained. “DALL·E takes it to another level – it’s just phenomenal. He changed the plate from his usual chocolate mousse to something that does service to the name and to our parents. He blew our heads off.”

Branja is expected to open in October.

Don Allen Stevenson III

XR creator Don Allen Stevenson III has used DALL E to paint physical pictures, designer portable sneakersand create characters to transform into 3D renderings for AR filters. “It feels like having a genie in a bottle that I can collaborate with,” she said.

Stevenson’s true passion is education, specifically making technology accessible to more people. She hosts a weekly Instagram Live teaching people about DALL·E and other tools for creative innovation.

“Digital tools have freed me to have a life that I am proud of and love,” says Stevenson. “I want to help other people see creative technology like DALL E the way I see it, so they too can be free.”

danielle baskin

danielle baskina multimedia artist, says she plans to engage the DALL·E generations in several different art forms: product design, illustration, theater, and alternate realities.

“He’s a mood board, viber, illustrator, art curator, and museum docent,” says Baskin. “It is an infinite museum where I can choose which private collections I want to visit. Sometimes I need to repair the private collections (modify my fast typing). Sometimes the collection is not quite there. But sometimes the teacher (DALL E 2) shows me an amazing new collection that I didn’t know existed.”

battle of august

Music and multimedia artist August Kamp says he sees DALL·E as a kind of interpreter of the imagination.

“Conceptualizing one’s ideas is one of the most controlled processes in the modern world,” says Kamp. “Everyone has ideas, not everyone has access to enough training or encouragement to express them with confidence. I feel empowered by the ability to creatively repeat a feeling or idea, and I deeply believe that everyone deserves that feeling of empowerment.

chad nelson

Chad Nelson has been using DALL·E to create highly detailed creatures, and has created over 100 of them.

“I envisioned a cast of charming woodland critters, each brimming with personality and emotional nuances,” Nelson said. His characters range from “a red furry monster staring in amazement at a lit candle” to “a striped furry monster dancing its hips beneath a disco ball,” each designed to capture the most human of all: feeling.

“DALL·E is the most advanced brush I’ve ever used,” says Nelson. “As amazing and astounding as DALL·E is, like the brush, it must also be guided by the artist. He still needs that creative spark, that lightbulb in the mind to innovate, to create that something out of nothing.”