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English Editions of AI Art Books “Hiroshige,” etc., Now Published on Kindle

Among the AI art collections I have created—many of which include works selected or awarded in public exhibitions—I have published both Japanese and English print-on-demand editions on Amazon. Previously, I released Japanese Kindle editions of three out of the eleven chapters, each optimized for smartphones. Now, I have published their English versions as well: The Hiroshige Volume ($3), The Hundertwasser Volume ($3.9), and Thematic Volume ($6).

These artworks were created by giving AI (Stable Diffusion) short prompts such as the names of painters and ukiyo-e artists. The resulting images are not limited to resembling those artists’ works but include paintings influenced by many other sources as well. For about a year before publication, printed versions of these works were exhibited in more than ten open-call art competitions in Japan. Most were selected, and four received awards. At the Genten Exhibition (現展), I was also recommended for Friend Membership (会友推挙). Since these works were co-created with AI, I use the name Kanabstracd—representing a human–AI art unit—as the author. Among the 324 works included in the print-on-demand edition, the Hiroshige Volume contains 16 images, the Hundertwasser Volume 28, and the Thematic Volume 70.

In creating these works,

I provided AI with words such as the coined name “Kanabstracd,” names of ukiyo-e artists and painters, or “surrealism,” and made creative use of Stable Diffusion’s “negative prompt” feature. This approach allows the AI not only to learn from the artworks available on the web but also to draw on its broader internal knowledge to freely “generate ideas,” resulting in a diverse range of creations. Each artwork is accompanied by commentary generated by GPT-5 or GPT-4o (ChatGPT). GPT points out connections between these works and those of Van Gogh, Dalí, Chagall, Klimt, Klee, Kandinsky, Miró, Picasso, Kusama, and many other artists from the Renaissance to modern and contemporary periods.