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glasnost and perestroika
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. – Mikhail Gorbachev A man that changed the course of history and many, many lives, including mine. What would the world look without him? Generated using talkingheads.rosebud.ai
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C o d H i A n O g S
Created with p5.js Duality of order and chaos. Fluctuation in order as a sign of being alive. Doesn’t the need to regulate ourselves emerge from ‘disorder’? Is what we seek equilibrium or is it an endless loop?
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Let the collaboration begin!
The AI is working. The group is gathered. It is getting loud. Collaboration is noisy and dirty.As sky blue as the atmosphere.It sounds like noise of birds, blowing of the wind.Collaboration is turbulent. Generated using teachablemachine.withgoogle.com and p5.js
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high and low
The process of art making can be very exhausting. At times you invest everything you have to accomplish your vision. The AI-generated selfie below is a representation of that particular feeling after an intense realisation and production time is over. Generated using artbreeder.com
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Cogito, ergo sum
My curiosity in existence and reality has made me explore a variety of ideas, from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to The Matrix trilogy. Through this exploration I came across Descarte’s work in a more concrete way. Most know of Descartes for his famous “Cogito, ergo sum” – I think therefore I am, but to…
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Realist means…
For today’s exercise I worked with three lines from Bertolt Brecht’s text, “On Realism and Popularity”. Brecht’s political work aimed to redefine realism, shifting the definition away from its traditional associations with the use of copious “naturalistic” description. Instead, Brecht envisioned works that stripped reality of its masks, revealing the constructed-ness of images, stories and…
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The Chicken and the Egg
The idea and the code to realise it or to realise the code that generates the idea…. Today has reminded me of a passage that I read last night in the book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake – the book is about how fungi connects the plant and animal worlds: “In all physical systems, energy…
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Breeding Resilience
On not giving up and self belief. This morning Hasan outlined the history of notions of neural networks and artificial intelligence starting in 1943 with Warren Mc Culloch and Walter Pitts. It was fascinating and inspiring to hear how humble beginnings, personal problems, resilience and self belief can result in such brilliant minds. We were…
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The Poetry of Machine Learning
My opening notes for today read like a poem: Creativity and dexterity of Hands. Fundamental elements of nature. Fascination with imitating nature And how it works To understand ourselves Manipulation of nature Humans the great manipulators Robotic forced labour We are the stories that we tell ourselves It’s becoming clear that every day throws up…
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The amazing world of deep fakes
Today we got in contact with deep fakes. From a simple image of any in the person you can make them speak and move. You just record yourself and from there an AI, translates those movements to an image. The possibilities of this technology are amazing, although at the same time dangerous. With the progress…
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MocktailofCode. D4.
Summarizing the first session about Tech that revolves around five words : Dataset | Training | Model | Test | Validate ‘Having’ a Dataset is foundation of our exploration here with AI enabled TechArt. Order and Chaos :I found this thing from my archives about order and chaos : Exploring p5.js : I was to…
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On the Edge of Chaos
On the fourth day Hasan showed us the ‘magic behind the curtain’ in regards to the processes behind Machine Learning. He described machine learning as a way to get things done, from input to output but the way in which they do this is the magic. He then took us through the very basic workings…
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Order Chaos PLAY
The idea of duality and trying to makes sense of the world through that lens has always felt limiting. It feels like it is set up for many ideas, possibilities and people falling through the cracks. The world feels beautiful as a blend, a balance and an integration. We aren’t just arms, legs, some blood…
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Chaotic order
Inspired by Max Cooper’s Order from Chaos, I explored how to represent order in apparent chaos. In Order from Chaos, Max Cooper uses raindrop sounds to create a organic rhythm by some amount of beat matching. Similarly, I tried to position match randomly generated circles by fitting them into a grid of 40 x 40…
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Chaos in the coding order
Computer language is one language that I would say is truly universal! No, not even English. And here you cannot have accents either. I have always found coding fun, relaxing and pleasurable and at the same time, quite chaotic. Chaotic because of the excessive use of curly brackets and semi-colons !! And the constant red-alerts…
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Resilience to Fantasy D3
Can machines think? Kiran asked further it depends on how we define thinking and machine. And the discussion followed interesting stories by Hasan and perspectives spontaneously by some of the fellows. A personal story of resilience snippet from my story was : “However out of all that thinking I decided to go back. And felt…
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mapping ‘order’ Green ‘chaos’
Through this project, I have tried to interpret the idea of ‘order’ in a local context and therefore I wanted to talk about how we need more trees, more greenery for the urban landscape of Karachi. Thinking about what it means to have technology like google maps and the possibilities we have at our disposal…
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Artbreed..R..!
So! I came to know this software -‘Artbreeder’ for the very 1st time.Although I have seen some prototype of it but never tried out.As a part of group work I started clicking / tweaking knobs n buttons.. You can see the result ! I believe I will use it again in near future to create…
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Code Chaos
Day 04 The process of working with code is particularly chaotic for a dyslexic mind. So, order vs chaos – is that battle in it. A freeway for thoughts coming in every direction, and full of accidents. Some happy accidents too. But mostly unrecognizable. Text and numbers making very little sense. Signal vs Noise…
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Puppet and Poetry D2.
Great start of this session with intro from mechanical automata! I was fascinated by mechanical automaton after seeing the film Hugo. However I did not explore more about it then and its links with ML and AI. Making begins! Teachable Machine demo. My edited poem for this demo : feeling brownish today . . . smell…
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Starting off! D1.
The breakout roomsactually helped us connect with each other in small groups. This was interesting because, everyone knew their pecha kucha session would be there later and there was no defined topic for discussion, so the fun is who will start the conversation on what? Lolz. Digital networking is a new reality. Good to connect…
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A Sea of Data
Noise. Lines. Color patterns. According to leaked training manuals, one needs to apply all sorts of massively secret operations to produce these kinds of images. But let me tell you something. I will decrypt this image for you without any secret algorithm … And I will even teach you ho to do it for free.…
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The original technologists & teaching our machines
I found day 2 to be a day full of insights into the original technologists during Hasan’s talk – From Clock to Clock Maker. I didn’t realise that the idea of a robot came from a play and to be honest, I never look at clocks and think mechanical, machines, AI etc. I’ve started to…
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Orderism & Chaositry
Edge of chaos is what we call the point between chaos and order. In a way just how neuro networks function. Exploring the very moment between finished and unfinished art you might get stuck in the duality of creation and destruction. I I tried to play the role of order while letting the machine take…
