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GPeoT3
Easily one of my favourite explorations in the last few days. Mary Oliver is profound, intimate, real, tender and all the things I would think of as ultra human. She is “home ground” in the way that a friend who has known me all my life, and is out there writing poetry, just so that…
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Originality is merely an illusion
or a deep fake… The introduction to facial recognition and the way its being used thus far through the homework we had was a great idea : Watch Social Dilemma We were introduced to tokkingheads.ai The applications of this technology is clearly massive. And the debate of whether it should be democratised is a long…
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Irrational Thoughts
“Irrational Thoughts Should be Followed Absolutely and Logically.” An excerpt from Sol LeWitt’s ‘Sentences on Conceptual Art’.
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Order + Chaos = Magic
“when nothing else was possible, to do nothing was the last effective form of resistance, disorder was preferable to order,and the practical consequences of a refusal to cooperate were nearly always better than collaboration” (Arendt quoted by Weizman, p36).
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Alternative Book of Revelations
DURING THE ELECTRONIC DARK AGES :In the second century of the Third Millennium: crisis in the West. Under the leadership of Artificial Intelligence, the man-machine war came to a standstill over the issue of the singularity; the question of artificial intelligence:Who is in charge? Who is to be sacrificed in the name of progress and…
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The Poem and the Machine
YOU + POEM + AI & ML = For the practice of today’s session, we introduce some lines of poems as input into the GTP-3 ( an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.) I selected and introduced lines from different poems such as “I may create a Monster” by Cherríe…
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The poem that wrote itself
Dream the fear of death The I who lived here, this shadow Clearly, it was two weeks As when a soul leaves the body, It feels until it passes to another body, awake. Everything comes down to a single thing It’s death everything else is contentment, and strength
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Colab 2020 AI Tools
Teachable Machines ArtBreeder P5JS Talking Heads COUCOU BeatBlender GPT3 Explorer RunwayML Some other tools which I love to use. Canva – for making posters DeepDream – Generating Trippy visual DeepArt – Style transfer WebcamToy – Fun webcam selfies/videos GauGan – Painting landscapes Photopea – Online photoshop alternative Magenta Studio – AI Powered Music Ableton Plugin
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Multi-headed Machines
In preparation for today’s session we were asked to watch an interview where Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) talks about Artificial Intelligence at Big Compute 20 Tech Conference. OpenAI want to figure out how human intelligence works and are attempting to build AGI ‘safe and beneficial’ (Artificial General Intelligence) for comercial gain. Altman proposed that we…
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Bach Bash
All my work – analog as well as digital, physical and virtual have included sound design. For live performances the main conversation has been over the music and for the films I create – music is the parallel story that adds another dimension to the narrative. I mostly collaborate on the music with composers, sound…
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Using cutting edge technology to write poems.
Yesterday we got access to OpenAi software. The access to this technology is very limited so we were lucky to have access to it. We had to feed the AI parts of poems, in the hope it would recreate a new one. I chose the poem Flanders Field, because of the link with my hometown.…
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Mute the robot
Thoughts during this exercise — What is the role of AI here? Is it learning the musical preferences of the general population? Does it have enough data of the ‘general’ population? Is it fixing and filling the gaps to create something pleasing? Who decides what is pleasing? Has it learned based on the available data…
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DarwinSaidThat! D5
This was Day 5 the session ‘Beware of algorithms’ looked into potentially tricky use cases of AI i.e. video manipulation. First thing that comes to our mind is the Obama’s Deepfake video that has emerged few years ago. The session followed interesting discussion about videos, faces, objects and more. The point made by Hasan opens…
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AI excels where I fail
In the field of composition, I find myself lost as to how to make things work. Even though I do work a lot with sounds and ‘music’ for my installations and performances; without a formal exposure to music and its theories I struggle to ‘compose’ in its traditional sense. Experimenting with a couple of things…
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Filling with Bach
The world of sound is a complete mystery to me. I find it fascinating how people think and create in sound. This exercise gave sound a visual interface – kind of bridging this gap for me. And the most fascinating aspect was having Bach fix my tone deaf composition.
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Cage has nothing to say
“Having nothing to say” encouraged Cage as a composer but he was more a philosopher when he began working on chance controlled music. His piece 4:33 consisted, no notes. The performer, performs an “empty” piece. But is it really empty? The audience sits in silence watching nothing, which gets difficult, as it is not something…
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“The robots are working…”
We’ve spoken a lot about the connection between robots and forced labour (the word “robot” is taken directly from the Czech word for work). We’ve asked how ethical it is to ask machines to do unpaid work for us. We’ve wondered if these machines have fun while learning to play human games, or if it’s…
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Dilated Disco
Experiments from todays session, tbc… https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ https://magenta.tensorflow.org/coconetconet
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(non)binary diaries
We are unwitting heirs of a long history of problematic binaries: from the go(o)d-(d)evil of premodernity to the oder-chaos of modernity. Problematic precisely because binaries feed into our double-optic apparatus and reinforce dual worlds. Reconciliation of retinal images does happen, but falls unfortunately in our visionary blind spot. Yet what is blind to two eyes…
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Self-Portrait of -insecurities—
This project explores human need to achieve perfection in images. Therefore through some experimental approaches I have created an archive of worst versions of my self portrait that I can imagine, as a way to document my insecurities.
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Tokking Tagore
Exercise from Day 5. A sort of momentary resurrection, that allowed me to, (in a way) spend time with a historical figure about something that is still relevant, and alive. People are rendered immortal by their view surviving time. And this was a way of making that happen.
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It’s three dimensions, isn’t it?
Order or chaos? Who cares, as long as it’s having three dimensions… Generated using p5.js
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Experiments
coded landscapes using p5.js Coding is really new to me but I found myself playing with p5.js everyday after the order chaos exercise. It is somewhat addicting, perhaps because its interactive and surprising when the method used is just trial and error.
