Kara's VISA110 Main Page

What are the nine images for the zines?

In Chinese folklore, the Chinese dragon does not roar alone. It has nine sons.
Each with its own spirit; they are fragments of personality: strength, music, justice, fire, and curiosity. Carved into roofs, instruments, and ancient stone, they watch over the world quietly, one form at a time.

Final Overall Reflection:

What is think as an artist in the Age of AI?
Thinking as an artist in the age of AI means working alongside systems that can create, remix, and imagine with us. Instead of replacing intuition, AI challenges me to define what parts of the creative process are uniquely human; our emotions, cultural memory, and intentions.

How should artists, and any creative for that matter, relate to these new systems?
Artists should relate to these systems with both openness and critical distance. AI can speed up experimentation and help visualize ideas that feel impossible to produce alone, but it also carries biases, misunderstandings, and blind spots. Our role is not to follow it, but to guide and question it.

How a to embrace its potentials while being aware of its failures and dangers? Embracing AI’s potential means staying aware of its limits. The mistakes are often as revealing as the successes: they show where human experience cannot be automated. By noticing these limits, we use AI more responsibly and more creatively.

How to expand our creativity through the use of these systems?
AI expands creativity by giving us new ways to test, prototype, and hybridize ideas. It becomes a collaborator that pushes our imagination further, but the vision still comes from us. Ultimately, being an artist now means shaping a thoughtful relationship with technology. Using it intentionally, ethically, and with a clear sense of our own voice.

Brief Description of My Homepage

The background is a GIF of Haibara Ai from Detective Conan, my favourite anime character. I chose it because the image of her working on a computer at night feels like me, as I often do my assignments late at night on my laptop, and the quiet mood of the GIF matches how I usually work.

For the nine zine hyperlinks, I used icons/images of Long Sheng Jiu Zi, the Nine Sons of the Chinese Dragon. Since the project has nine zines, this Chinese myth fit naturally, and it connects to my childhood love for reading Chinese folklore. Each dragon son carries a different spirit or personality, which mirrors how each zine has its own theme.

I arranged the zines right to left, top to bottom to echo traditional Chinese reading format. This small choice lets me bring a piece of cultural history into a modern digital layout.