New art from childhood memories

Do objects in your home or from your childhood remind you of other figures, animals, or natural phenomena? Let's have it as an inspiration to transform it into fantastical sculptures.

The starting point is simple. Prepare some images of the everyday objects around you–it could be pencil on your desk, broom on the room corner, bread from this morning's breakfast. Then rain them as a model, generate them with AI, and let your imagination run wild. See where the exploration with AI could take you. Here's how to turn your everyday objects into artwork, step by step.

How to start?

1. Press the "Submit artwork" button on this page.

2. Gather all the images of the everyday objects around you. Choose an interesting object, create a model, and start experimenting.

3. You can also try to train a model based on more random things, like photos of cabbages, and let the exploration of the result surprise you. On the image below, the first prompts was the single word, "skull". The result was terrifying and impressive because both skulls and cabbage are organic. If you like horror, neural networks excel at this!

4. This model was inspired by a meme drawing from the artist Borya-Spec. The meme depicted how, with a few simple tools, a loaf of bread can be turned into a trolleybus. However, the caption humorously asks, "But why?"

These images say it all:

5. Next, the images below were associated with a local Moscow phenomenon – poplar cotton. Every June, the city is filled with clouds of fluff, made of seed hairs coming from poplar trees.

6. Lastly, a model based on brooms to create animals. The result was interesting, but it lacked a metaphor. When the model tried to be used to generate a woman, exactly.ai came up with a solution where the skirt turned out to be shaped like a broom. This immediately added some depth to the idea, touching on gender roles and the hardships of women's lives in domestic spaces.

7. Now that you have a lot of ideas on how everyday objects can turn into a lot of interesting things, you can submit the generated images to this competition page, as many models and images as you like!

Who can participate

This is an opportunity for existing and new members of exactly. We invite artists, illustrators, and designers working with all mediums to come on board. Here, we would love to see your diverse, unique perspectives brought to life. Let’s create your personal AI models trained on your artwork, and submit images created with it to this competition.

Deadline is on 11 October, 2024, 23:59 utc

This is your chance to turn the ordinary objects around you into something extraordinary. Good luck, we look forward to your submissions!