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Can Machines be Creative?
Poetry from our Homeground. We needed to choose 3 pieces of poetry from our ‘homeground’. I chose to work with children’s literature from across time and languages. One which is written for children The second is written by a child and the third about childhood imagination and bravery. The last one is in Bengali and…
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Train Machines to Teach Ancient Gesture
My Poem : The future is a brilliant blue grand Aura It sounds like the silence of possibilities just before a storm Future is Now New toys : https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/train/image https://editor.p5js.org/ Application of Today’s Toy A repository of communication through Gesture. To Teach the Machine the multiplicity in meanings of different gestures – to help humans…
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Artificially Intelligent Poem…..
This is really crazyyy when I first use the AI to write poem. My all time favorite Tagore, I used three quotes of his poems and premise and then used AI to write poem ,, and the outputs are brilliant ……………………..
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Talking Head
This is truly incredible when your inspiration talks his words in his own tongue and in your voice. AI based model Talking head make it possible and I used the famous surreal figure Salvador Dali and his famous quote. The process of doing the work was really wonderful.
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Welcome to RANI
RANI does not draw a map of the territory, but a contour that does not stop at the edge. Some work-in-progress screenshots from today. We’ll be sharing more about RANI soon!
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Creating a portrait with AI
Feeding Artbreeder with my photo while trying to illustrate how do I moved in moods (from left to right) during the first months of Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 . Maybe I should try to make a visual diary for 2021.
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Updating my Chaos/Order
I created this code inspired by some visual memories of my childhood in Mexico’s City. Growing up in this mega city, I always felt a chaotic vibe following an invisible order. The city’s markets are the best example of this.
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Sonic Tapestry & Second Language
PlayGround Once I walked past old, large, treesAnd into an old green parkI glanced at the huge, old treesHow huge they are & also dark… I returned my eyes to the playgroundThen checked my watch.. I always feel , sound wave/ambience/sonic tapestry is my 2nd language, before learning how to feed /nurture/culture the machine ,I…
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A walk with GPT-3
I came to know about this autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text named GPT-3, at first in this CoLab ArtTech fellowship.Although I am a sound artist & have deal with digital workstation each & everyday .. but if the Digital Audio workstation is a canvas , GPT-3 is itself a…
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Machinic Poetry
Memory 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. Before our eyes a boundless wall of red Shot through by sudden streaks of jagged pain! Then a slow-gathering darkness overhead, O vision of my city, Yesterday…
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Poetry and propositions
An excerpt from This Waking Life – Eamonn Healy speaking about telescopic evolution and the future of humanity. A ‘Santhe’ of propositions in response to the clip https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_khNsotQ=/ The digital whiteboard threw up some complex and interesting propositions but also quite brilliantly exposed the messiness of humans (or maybe artists) and our propensity to react…
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Ideation with Fellow Artists!
Some interesting dialogues and information that helped me formulate my ideas so I am compiling them here for a future reference. Thank you fellow collaborators, Be Fantastic Team and off course Hassan @curiouswala for helping throughout the process.
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Malika-e-Tarannum
This is a New Media Art Project which I as a Visual-Tech artist am trying to interrogate Pop culture at the intersection of technology and history.
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COUCOU WOO WOO.
Experiments with BeatBlender and CouCou ML music programmes. I found coucou the most intuitive of the 2 programmes which is an important factor for me when making work – I am not a sketcher or planner – unless I have to work out dimensions or something I work really intuitively and make lots of written notes…
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Talking Pictures, deep fakes and lizard brains.
‘It seems to me that some of us value information over wonder, and noise over silence. And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives’. Fred Rogers. Changing our mental state through targeted online content and the way that algorithms take control away from the user…
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A Search for Answers
This is a scratch of how our Colab film could turn out looking like. Working with talkingheads…
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Where do we go from here?
Though I have been using p5js for a while now, I really wanted to see what would happen if I limited myself to instructions of the session. I have added a “for loop” though! Alistair read out a wonderful piece by Hito Stereyl – refer here for more: https://blrfantastic.wpcomstaging.com/2020/10/22/a-sea-of-data/ The image in the essay was…
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It matters….
Playing with Tokking Heads. Lines taken from Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene/Donna Haraway, page 35.
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Are we artificial poets?
Text is an interesting medium of expression because while it follows a set of syntax, much like that in code, there is a lot of nuance in how one reads it which changes its meaning. A lot of what we understand of writing depends on our experiences in life and of our perceptions. The message…
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What is poetry if it doesn’t suggest, connote, evoke and convey?
Poem: Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Jeff Koons: ‘I’m making just things, a world that I find interesting to look at.’ Conceptual art can mean anything to anyone. It can mean an action, such as the recent torching of the ashes of conceptual artist Piero…
