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How Machines Hear + Play / Creating TechArt
Today’s lecture was about How Machines Hear and Play. I was curiously waiting for this session, as the title caught my attention. Throughout the lecture, Hasan spoke about: The representation of ourselves on video and in photos, is broken down into pixels. We’re all just pixels on a screen! Latent face. How new technologies are…
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TRY THIS AT HOME
A workshop exploring the potential of AI and the virtual world to help us enrich our experience of our physical worlds, especially our homes, during COVID-19. A suite of experiments and reflections will test the workshop’s approach. Something & Friends – Rashmi Bidasaria | Marsha Bradfield | Vinay Khare Concept Note This submission unfolds in…
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Beware of Algorithms + Data Privacy
I can’t believe its the end of week one of the Fellowship already and what a week it’s been. I’m exhausted and inspired all at once. Hasan’s lecture today Beware of Algorithms resonated with me, as it was all about data is used to further capitalism (to sell you more products and services). This lecture…
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A(I) Search For Answers
A short film of animated thinkers from the past, having conversations of today. These celebrated figures ask existential questions that we as humans have asked throughout the ages and how these questions will guide us into the future. COLLECTIVE 42 – Jens Isensee | Cat Scott | Smruthi Gargi Eswar Concept Note The idea for…
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Order-Chaos-Noise-Signal: Breaking the Binary
Hasan’s lecture today was about The Magic Behind The Curtains, about the datasets and neural network models used in machine learning. One model which we’ve used so far is a Classification Model, used to train the machine to classify objects in the Teachable Machine software. In the world of machine learning technology, data points can…
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My Story of Resilience
The more I learn in life, the more I realise that cross-disciplinary working is the way forward. This is something I hold close to my own heart and is something that I’ve taken from Hasan’s lectures so far. I’ve realised how art is used as vehicle for social change, whether thats intentionally or unintentionally. Fictional…
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Plutchik / Senti(m)ent
Plutchik project/Senti(m)ent examines and questions the emotion-mapping ability of AI by producing a virtual and automated fashion show of designer bots, reacting to human presence and their emergent emotional cues through outfits and sounds. AYESHA M. ALI | MARCEL TOP | BUDHADITYA CHATTOPADHYAY Concept Note Plutchik/Senti(m)ent project is an AI-driven interactive environment with designer bots,…
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The Creative Practice of Doubt
How to capture the significance of today’s discussion? There’s a lot I won’t touch on, like our fascinating conversation about error and creativity. I’m hoping this finds expression in my cohorts’ blogposts. Our lecturer Hasan* began by sketching a map of our emerging knowledge. Thought this visualisation tagged with acronyms, we’re beginning to appreciate how…
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Memory
This poem was conceived and written in collaboration. Co Authors : Marcel Top, Ayesha M.Ali and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay The mist in the distance has already subsided, The insects retreat too , the stream is lonely and serene. The black boat floats, in lonely vigour. How dear these twilights when a passion for desires took hold.…
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Yours truly… partially present
KEYWORDS: warmup (ice breaker), generating/generative poetry, PechaKucha lite, Prathima Muniyappa Thursday 15 October 2020. Four days ago. I received the news… I’d been accepted onto the fellowship. As… An ‘understudy’. (Let’s just pretend that I know what that means.) All I could think was, ‘Fantastic!’ Because, ‘This is going to BeFantastic!’ …challenging, too. For starters, the…
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More tools and more
Well as we come closer to the end of the two weeks, we get to start working on the final output collaboratively. Before sending us off into the great dark unknown, Hasan like in all previous days shone light around us, this time with all the different tools which could be used creatively in our…
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Reading Writing with Machine GPT3. D7.
AI and it’s quest to find General Purpose understanding of ‘ideas’ seem to me interesting and tricky at the same time. Ideas are rooted in their context of place, people, culture. This is how we have been learning about the world, people and their stories and cultures. Now we have a machine which is attempting…
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Co-Created Sound Doodle We & AI. D6.
Day 6 discussions rolled around How Machines Play both music and games. I find the discussion on Game quite interesting. Google Deep mind defeated the World Champion in Go was not shocking for me, as my background in engineering I could totally conceptually think about how this can happen. I am sure as computing power…
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Creating new identities to tackle new challenges.
Somewhere over the internet I read that we aren’t taught to deal with the kind of challenges that exist in todays society. Evolution and education hasn’t caught up to social media and our mental health is struggling. The world is moving at an ever faster pace amd we’re struggling to keep up. Can we employ…
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Let’s get bach to basics
This piece was made to serve as a demonstration that we’ll still need artists who know what they’re doing. I’m not a music person. The AIs I employed for the job is not getting rehired either. I regret this.
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Great Powers
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others. A low moral sense or conscience is often apparent, as well as a history of crime, legal problems, or impulsive and aggressive behavior. With great powers come great responsibility. Using Tokking Heads from rosebud.ai I mixed the…
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Multi species sit -ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads http://thischairdoesnotexist.com/ https://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/5720/ergonomics.en.htm
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The Machine Doesn’t Stop
‘Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that…
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Mediated Rembrandt
“The work of art in a physical space is different: it craves you. Looking at art is a communal act.” David Zwirner Today opened up discussions around originality, primary and mediated experiences. What is lost via mediated experiences and what might be gained? It is impossible to talk about the display and experience of art…
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Beyond High-tech and Low-tech
During yesterday’s (28 October 2020) dialogue “Showcasing TechArt”, the presenter, founder of Eyemyth, India, Avinash Kumar provided with a very interesting perspective on “TechArt” when he lamented that a proliferation of “High Tech (Media) Arts” in India is out of context as there is little exposure to and interest in these works. One wonders what…
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Work In Progress
Today we started working towards our collaborative project. Our idea is to create an interactive bot, based on data; trough internet scraping of certain emotions we want to gather pictures and words that describe that emotion: Our bot would interact depending on the emotion readable from the human face. Of course this is still work…
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Extrapolating Creativity
STATE OF THE ART We began the day with a little recap of what we had learnt over the last two weeks, discussing the language and metaphors used to describe AI technology, such as ‘neural network’ – a metaphor for the network of nodes within a computational model for information processing – and ‘deep’ used…
