Arts and Crafts Membership Meeting and Presentation from Joel Pollack of Art and AI

On Monday May 5th, we want to draw you in for a very  

special Presentation involving AI in the Art world.  This is a modified Demo.  We will ONLY be addressing AI in ART, not AI and its bigger industry usage.  Joel Pollack is an

industry expert in electronic displays, holding a BS in Physics from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS in Materials Science from the University of Rochester.  

Joel's history in the work world as a physicist at Xerox WRC includes much more.  He has a background in engineering, marketing, development, and management, at companies like Tektronix, Sharp Microelectronics, Samsung, Nividia and was CEO at Clairvoyante.  In 2016 he retired from Amazon's Lab 126 as manager of display engineering for products like Kindle.  Currently he is a private industry consultant.

Among his other interests he is a commercial drone pilot and amateur photographer/videographer active in the Camera Club. Which leads us to Joel's recent applying his mastering AI imaging using an industry leading tool, Midjourney, for promptography.

Artificial Intelligence is a term frequently seen in the news for products like self-driving vehicles, Chat GPT, language, and more.  Let Joel explain in his best layman's terms about Midjourney, Joel will show a range of images to demonstrate the depth and capability from photorealism to artwork.

Joel is encouraging you, Villagers, to create pencil or charcoal sketches and even a photograph to send to him at  in any format or scan as a PDF.

He'll use Midjourney for some to create AI retexturing netting different artistic looks of the original submissions.  Make yourself available and perhaps some of your

Questions will be answered like, “how do they do that?”

MEMBERS:  SEND YOUR SKETCH TO JOEL AT  j.pollack.cv@gmail.com and he will process it with AI and show you what can be done with your sketch.  Do this before MAY 1.