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Wood Wide Web: Learning to Personify Forests
The Wood Wide Web is a hybrid interactive installation, which will be bringing ancient endangered trees from India and the UK to life through the use of skeletal tracking and AI. The sacred forests get personified and tell their stories, evoking empathy in humans across the globe to inspire more care for the planet. Artists: Kanchan…
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Poetics of Garbage: Harnessing The Potential of Waste
Poetics of Garbage will be a single-screen film shot in the streets and hinterlands of Delhi that explores how single-use plastic designed into a performance costume is rationalized by a machine to produce language. Artists: Aashna Arora, Bruce Gilchrist, Thaniya Kanaka Mahalakshmi, Chaitali Kulkarni Image Source: greenpeace.org The project will reflexively produce a commentary on…
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Give Me A Sign: Developing The Narrative
Give Me a Sign combines aspects of Indian philosophy and practices with narratives around Artificial Intelligence and climate change, through an illusionary AI entity called ‘Shunya’ who responds to mudras with visions, dreams, stories, concerns and hopes they have about our changing planet. Artists: Diane Edwards(UK) , Upasana Nattoji Roy (India)Supported By: Hasan S Intention…
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ClimateProv: Playing with the AI
ClimateProv is an interactive 60-minute AI improv theatre performance that provokes conversations about the climate emergency. Human performers work together with an AI performer to improvise live theatrical scenes based on suggestions and prompts related to climate change and its implications for humanity.
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Only A Game (?): The Inception
A playful immersive installation, ‘Only A Game (?)’ is an interactive game experience where audiences can use their body movements to offset the gradual increase of global warming and co-create generative art in the process.
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Where do I come from? Where do I go?: Learning to Capture the Concept
An AI-generated installation in the form of a waterfall overflowing with an abundance of garbage. Created from datasets generated by the performers documenting the equation between them and their garbage, this work hopes to encourage thought on consumption and the garbage amassed on a daily basis.
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Asthir Gehrayee: The Process Behind the Art
Asthir Gehrayee is an immersive, interactive, audiovisual digital art installation, inspired by the ocean and its more-than-human inhabitants that strives to show that change is both an individual and collective possibility when it comes to oceanic health.
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Humanising the Machine
By BFT Student Fellows: Tse Xuan Lau and Joanne Lim Overview: Week 1: Part 1: Humanising the Machine Part 1 aims to talk about biases in Media reporting in relation to the state of our climate urgency. Though there is increased coverage on climate change, there are questions on how the reports are framed, which…
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‘New Perception’- a Techart Zine
By BFT Student Fellows: Jocelynne Pricilia Cantona & Zaneta Trixie This is the first 4 pages of our magazine called “New Perception”. This magazine is a highlight of other fellow’s work which we think truly open a new perception for us in art and technology. We try to make this magazine as detailed as possible…
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The Art of Technology
By BFT Student Fellows: Aditi Neti & Li Xinci Li Xinci penned down a few questions and answers based on talks given by Hasan and the related conversations that occurred. Aditi Neti formatted them and created an accompanying p5.js visual that responded to the line in the text: “There is no right or wrong in…
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Visual Documentation of Artistic Responses
By BFT Student Fellows: Jeremy Lim & Zhang Yuqi Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: About the student fellows Jeremy Lim: I’m currently in my 4th year at SUSS in Digital Media. I mostly specialize in photography and videography, however I also have experience in coding and graphic design. I’m also currently working full time…
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Feel the heat yet?
By BFT Student Fellow: Tang Hoang Nha (Cleo) Here is a fundamental heat simulation on p5.js in order to express the tension of global warming. An early experiment: I created the following art piece to manipulate traditional brush strokes digitally. The idea of this work is focused on surrealism and unrealistic landscapes. There are still…
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We cannot be silent anymore!
By BFT Student fellow: Li Xinci About the Student Fellow Li Xinci: I am a new student of Lasalle College of the Arts. My major is design for communication & experiences. I hope to explore the dialogue between products, people and materials, and culture in the future, all of which cannot be done without the…
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The Joy of Fireworks without it’s Detriments
By BFT Student Fellow: Aditi Neti As part of the Footprint and Climate breakout room, I heard discussions about how we can minimise our ecological impact, and exist in this world not as an invasive species but as a species who keeps other fauna and flora in mind. This got me thinking, bursting firecrackers in…
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Code and find own drawing tool
This is real fun and exciting using the p5js code and creating own drawing tool. I used the tool and draw a portrait that gradually discover my self.
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A(I) Search For Answers – Group Pecha Kucha to Fellows + Mentors
I can’t believe today is the last day of the Fellowship, what a fortnight it has been. Its been a challenge, yet so inspiring and I’ve built up the momentum that I was hoping for, to learn 3D modelling for 3D printing, coding for Arduino and sound-based tools/software for the first time. I feel like…
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K(not) a Conversation
K(not) a Conversation is an installation exploring the concepts of artificial intelligence, creativity and labour. Inspired by ancient indigenous communication systems of Quipu knots, it instigates a communication and reflection process through the use of knots and AI systems. Ambika Joshi | Nayeli Vega Vargas | Thomas Heidtmann Concept Note The installation exists in two ways,…
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The answer to life, the universe, and everything -Collective 42
Today we got stuck into the core of what we wanted to create and we even gave ourselves a name – Collective 42. Named after the answer from the all-knowing computer in the famous novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As we are searching for answers to questions about life, the universe – everything,…
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Give Me a Sign
Give me a Sign is a prototype for an interactive storytelling tool which uses Machine Learning and hand gestures – from ancient Indian dance practices – to trigger urgent and important conversations of multiplicity, climate crisis and the anthropocene. Shayekh Mohammad Arif | Diane Edwards | Upasana Nattoji Roy Concept Note We are the stories that…
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CoLab Work Session / State of the Art / Showcasing TechArt
CoLab Work Session over Chai + Chat During our Chai and Chat this morning, Smruthi, Jens and I discussed our ideas about nature, the universe and everything. Initial Ideas If nature could talk to us, what would it say? Interactive fortune teller game, biblical/mythological language using scientific facts. Text-driven interface. Video – Talking Heads /…
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RANI: Room for AlterNative Intelligences
RANI is a Room for AlterNative Intelligences. As an expanding digital space, RANI houses research resources, curated dialogues and multi-modal sketches from ongoing processes of artistic research with a keen focus on alternatives to dominant modes of knowledge production. Roshni Bhatia | Alistair Debling | Kiran Kumar Concept Note Where could children mess with deep…
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STEPHEN (..is going to be lonely when he’s dead)
STEPHEN is an exploration of how AI understands humanity & how to integrate AI as a collaborator in our artistic practice in a way that pays respect to the human and artificial artists equally. Koel Sen | Sebastian Drab | Stephen Concept Note Using GPT-3 as our main collaborator we let the AI name itself…
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Philobiblian’s Palimpsest
The project Philobiblian’s Palimpsest explores machine learning through an ethnographic framework whereby the artists’ conversations with the machine seek the machine’s insights into culture, philosophy and emotion via a re-imagining of E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story The Machine Stops. Jo Clements | Bhargav Padhiyar | Dibyendu Seal Concept Note Drawing on current research that…
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How Machines Read + Our Final Artwork
Hasan’s lecture today provided food for thought: Can machines read and talk to us? Supervised vs. Unsupervised learning (unsupervised: humans can learn from existing datasets). Code analogy: code is a formal syntax for thought. Human language is very informal. Input > Model > Output (neural network process). Transformer Architecture. Long Short Term Memory. Chat Bots.…
