Category: Day 08 – Wednesday, Oct 28
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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A Search for Answers
This is a scratch of how our Colab film could turn out looking like. Working with talkingheads…