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Yuming Chen Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Flow Interactive Generative Art in Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yuming Chen for generative, algorithmic, parametric and ai-assisted design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design category for Flow Interactive Generative Art by Yuming Chen. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Flow Interactive Generative Art
Flow is an interactive generative artwork that responds to written prompts and body movement. A visitor types a short description of an image, and the image is generated on screen in real time, without waiting. A camera captures the movement of the visitor, and the captured motion is turned into data that changes particles and other visual effects within the generated image. A fast generative model and a preset resolution of 500 by 500 pixels keep the response smooth. Flow lets people without technical training shape artificial intelligence images directly.
About Yuming Chen
Yuming Chen is a PhD researcher in i-DAT, Plymouth University, and the co-founder of Limoda Studio. His background is Interaction Design, with a MA from Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London, and with skills in Digital Media Arts. His research interests lie in AI art, generative art and dome.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yuming Chen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design Award
The A' Generative Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good generative designs from leading creators and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to generative designers, algorithmic design professionals, ai-assisted design experts and parametric designers from all countries. Entries typically include algorithmic artworks, parametric architectures, generative graphics, ai-assisted illustrations, computational sculptures and procedural patterns. Awarded generative designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/generative
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/162336
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162336
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162336
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/356522
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.coda-home.com/flow
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Flow Interactive Generative Art
- Function
- Interactive Generative Art
- Category
- Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design
- Discipline
- Design Strategy
- Industry
- Innovation and Design Industry
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Light Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yuming Chen
- Country
- Great Britain
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162336
Credits
- Image Credits
- Creator Yuming Chen; Creator Yuming Chen Video Credits: Yuming Chen
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Flow" is a new attempt for interactive art in the field of AI, which realises real-time interaction between the audience and AI artworks by introducing large models of generative art and motion capture technology. After the audience inputs the description of the image, the AI artwork can be generated on the screen in real time without additional waiting, and the audience can influence the formed AI artwork through the change of body movement, so that it is no longer just a static picture.
- Inspiration
- Thinking about the limitations of current AI art generators. In addition to inputting cue words, in what other ways can we influence the generation of AI artworks? How can the general audience (non-professional practitioners) experience the fascination brought by AI-produced art? I achieve real-time interaction between viewers and AI artworks by introducing the fastest-generating AI macromodels into Touch Desiger, so that the experiencers can interact with the AI artworks through the camera.
- Challenge
- The challenge in the development of this project was how to combine the large model with the digital creative tool TouchDesigner, and how to make the generation of the images smoother and more interactive with the audience. In order to achieve the effect of real-time generation without waiting, the picture quality of the generated images needed to be sacrificed, but I used digital art techniques to secondary process to achieve a better visual effect.
- Realization and Technology
- Plug-ins are made by writing Python code in Touch Designer to connect to the API port of the large model to get the big model. Create visual effects such as particles in Touch Designer to visually process the generated images. And access the camera port to capture the audience's movement in real time, and convert the movement into data in Touch Designer to influence the effect of the generated image.
- Operation and Interaction
- Enter prompts to generate images in real time, and wave your hands or any body movement to change and interact with the generated images.
- Specifications
- In order to realise real-time interaction between AI art and the viewer, large models with low resolution but fast generation speeds, such as SD turbo, need to be selected. At the same time, considering the smoothness of response and ensuring proper resolution, I preset the resolution of the generated image to 500×500 so that the FPS can be kept around 10 when the viewer interacts with the screen.
- Keywords
- AI, Interactive Art, Digital Art, Generative Art
