Art Talks & Sketches (sorted by Exhibition Year)
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Title: Mind-Body Dualism
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Mind-Body Dualism examines the topic of existence as a physical being and digital being simultaneously, adding nuance to the Cartesian idea of separation of mind and body and proposing yet a 3rd separation: The virtual body.
Title: Record One Message to The Person You Love!
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The title, “Record One Message to The Person You Love!”, invite the audience to stand in front of the voice reception installation and say a few words to their loved ones. These messages will be processed by the processing computer program in real-time and converted into dynamic data images according to audience’s volume and frequencies of voices. The messages can also be immediately converted into 3D printing model files, which can then be printed into unique white vinyl disc-shaped objects engraved with each person’s own identity markings. In the end, each of the 3D printed objects will be displayed on the wall. Audience will be able to use the AR interface on the mobile device to replay the messages and videos corresponding to each of the 3D prints. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.
Through this work, we discuss how in the digital age, all of our messages may someday become souvenirs to be stored, printed, and replayed records. Through exhibition in different countries and locations, and the collection of messages to their loved ones by a large number of people, this installation has the potential to become a big database. Gradually, with an ever increasing number of messages recorded, it might even become a museum for sound and memory. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.
Title: Robosophy Philosophy: Übermensch and Magnanimous
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
In the project Robosophy Philosophy (Meeting Points: Übermensch and Magnanimous) robot are mixing words of Aristotle and Nietzsche (and their words are everybody words) based on calculations and algorithms. If grammar is the “metaphysics of the people,” as Nietzsche claimed, then discussions in the installation is “metaphysics of the machines” and as such ant-words or anarchistic grammar. It is a vision of transfer of knowledge in the future and present criticism of society and technoculture which is allowing brutal destruction of human context replaced with artificial and superficial. Key technical novelty presented in Installation Robosophy Philosophy is the combination of chatbot technologies and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models that will enable reinforcement learning in order to create artificial conversational agents who will achieve human level performance. The fact, that things can communicate with each other and with the humans enables unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning and knowledge multiplying opportunities.
Title: The Ghost in the Dandelion
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Dandelion is a virtual creature used data visualization, generative design, and facial recognitiontechniques to build the dynamical patterns of the virtual life to interact with people’s emotional and physiological expression in a soothing way. The core algorithm of Dandelion graphic is inspired from the genetic code, to make dandelion patterns do self-generation, transform morphology like natural evolution. The embedded series parameters are set from the viewer’s specific facial features when stand in front of it, grasp viewer’s emotional and physiological express as the performance of dandelion’s growing behavior. It would demonstrates a novel symbiosis of data visualization that embedded into a mirror brings functional aesthetics, healthcare thinking into our future living.
Title: Wandering World
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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We imagine to use technology and reach from our senses and immediate surroundings. Wandering World represents an accumulation of attempts at connecting through physical and virtual activities. Over a one-year period and situated in different geographic (and predominantly political) locations (California and Indiana, USA), the artists simultaneously walked, connected to each other and world events through mobile technologies and using 360-degree, omnidirectional cameras to record images from their respective environments. Along with sounds, and extracted, amassed and whirling within concentric, virtual spheres, flowers compete for attention as subject matter – disorientating place, time, ideology, and thought process.
Title: Algorithmic Analysis and Visualization of Motion in Cinema
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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This talk explores some of the possible applications of unsupervised machine learning methods in found footage cinema, a tradition of experimental art that re-edits excerpts from existing films. This artistic practice sometimes aims to reconfigure our experience of the moving image heritage. In this context, machine learning algorithms has the potential to capture aspects of the cinematic experience for which we lack critical concepts, and which are for this reason difficult to describe. One important example concerns cinematic motion. Established critical discourse often speaks of motion in film by reference to the movement of objects or the camera. Film scholars might describe a scene by noting, for instance, that a person is walking fast or that the camera is tilting upwards. What is missing in this kind of description is the visual texture of cinematic movement. The two-channel algorithmic installation Errant: The Kinetic Propensity of Images applies matrix factorization techniques to the analysis of optical flow in cinema, focusing on the work of Chinese director King Hu. This method produces a visual dictionary of basic motion patterns the represent what could be described as the “kinetic overtones” of image sequences. The results are then visualized using streaklines, a technique from fluid dynamics. This presentation will discuss the motivation and methodology used in the production of this work, in relation to other work by the speaker. Implications for cinema theory will also be briefly discussed.
Title: Anathema / Anatema
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Anathema is the psychological study of Doug’s demons, nightmares and fantasies in a dream-like autoscopy that displays the strengths and vulnerabilities of a self-altered and self-made man in his 70’s. The piece was created with the Kinect volumetric sensor, with music by Mexican cyber-punk musician Cesar Cardenas aka Zoonosis.
Title: Art Talks Invited Speaker - Beyond Algorithmic Genericism
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
With the recent renewed interest in art generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is timely to re-explore the body of knowledge and critique around art made by algorithms. Since computers were first adopted as art machines a number of enduring criticisms have reoccured over the decades, often with different names, but ultimately similar conceptual foundations. Essentially they relate to issues of authorship (who is the author when an “intelligent” machine is involved in the art making process?), autonomy (how much of the decision making and creative judgment is absolved to the machine?), authenticity (can creative acts or outputs made by machines ever be authentic?) and intention (is it right to think of machines as artists?). As AI technologies are increasingly fetishised by technologists and artists, a renewed debate around these criticisms has reemerged. In this talk I want to specifically address the issue of algorithmic genericism: how can algorithmic art practices escape the spectre of being generic to the algorithm itself? How can a practice be informed to recognise the issues of authorship, autonomy, authenticity and intention and move beyond algorithmic genericism?
Title: Art Talks Opening - Deep Dreaming
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: Captured by an Algorithm
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Captured by an Algorithm is a commemorative plate series that looks at romance novels through the lens of the Amazon Kindle Popular Highlight algorithm. Each plate features one highlight and an algorithmically generated landscape. The highlights tell a story of the loneliness, grief, vulnerability, and discontent felt by the readers.
Title: CharActor
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The personality of living things is beautiful. Is it possible to have a personality in the digital world? CharActor is a video work that produces animation by recognizing shader programs as genes and by changing the mathematical expression itself using evolutionary computation.
Title: Contact/Sense
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
When we feel and sense through machines, are we still ourselves? In a mixed reality where embodied actions and blinding visions are part woman/part machine, the tactile surface of plants is a portal that conjures augmented materialities into existence.
Title: Dream Clanger
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Dream Clanger is a hybrid art/computer science project that re-imagines AFL Player GPS data and match video. Building on Baden Pailthorpe’s 2017 major exhibition ‘Clanger’, this work pushes the envelope further by integrating machine learning.
Title: Illusion: you can hear, but you can't see.
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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ILLUSION explores the relationship between the body, mind, and machine by taking advantage of the brain-computer interface. It detects whether your consciousness has visual stimuli to produces cadenced sound, an exterior manifestation of the performer’s internal state. When you close your eyes, you can see the world imaged by sounds.
Title: Instababy Generator
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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This artwork is an installation that expresses the future in which users can manufacture designer’s babies themselves. You can design, customize and manufacture your baby with your favorite gene on your laptop. A 3D printed child appears from the display, and the child’s face created based on the visitor’s face.
Title: LightWing II
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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LightWing II creates a mysterious sensation of tactile data. In this interactive installation, a kinetic construction is augmented with stereoscopic 3D projections and spatial sound. A light touch sets the delicate wing-like structure into a rotational oscillation and enables the visitor to navigate through holographic spaces and responsive narratives.
Title: Machine Hallucination - Latent Study II
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Machine Hallucinations – Latent Study II is part of an ongoing synthetic reality collection that explores the relationship between memory and dreams, recognition and perception.
Title: Metascape: Villers Bretonneux
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Metascape: Villers Bretonneux is an immersive, interactive memoryscape experienced in first-person perspective, that simulates 72 hours in real time of the 1918 First World War Second Battle of Villers Bretonneux. The work relies on multiple forms of spatial and memory reconstruction, both driven by algorithmic processes.
Title: Narrative's Impact on Quality of Experience in Digital Storytelling
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Our ways of telling stories have evolved along with advances in technology. This has led to the emergence of digital storytelling, emphasizing multimodality and interactivity. This project explores narrative influences on Quality of Experience of users in digital stories. This is done by creating and implementing a location driven digital story presented to the user by an augmented reality application made in Unity on a mobile device. This narrative system has then been evaluated by 30 people who have participated in a subjective evaluation. The results show that the narrative setup results in a richer, livelier and more engaging experience.
Title: Numb
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Numb, shaped as an exaggerated eyeball, follows you and reflects the blinks of yours. It makes you become aware of your own blinking and sensitive to your own sensation. Numb illustrates how we build relationship with technology through senses, and how we become sensitive to ourselves by and with technology.
Title: Political Crystals: Algorithmic Strategies for Data Visualization
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Combining algorithmic modeling strategies for data visualization with digital fabrication, the work includes the generative design of a series of geometrically intricate crystals-like 3D models using as raw data Twitter APIs having as the search phrase hashtags related to Brazilian 2018 presidential elections twitted from defined geolocations.
Title: Smile
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Smile is a mixed-media installation consisting of a screen in a black box, mounted on the wall. When an interactor smiles, drone-footage of the ruins of Gaza fades in. If the interactor stops smiling, the video stops. It only plays when the interactor widely smiles at it.
Title: SoS
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
SoS recreates the experiences of two Syrian asylum seekers as they lose sight of each other during a treacherous ocean voyage from Indonesia to Northern Australia.
Title: Tactile Microcosm of ALife
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Tactile Microcosm of ALife offers interaction with artificial organisms, whereby the user can enjoy playing with fish-like organisms through aerial imaging and haptic feedback. The holographic organisms float in water in a petri dish, and the user can feel a forcefield of the vital of the organisms via force feedback.
Title: “Rebooting Memories”: Creating “Flow” and Inheriting Memories from Colorized Photographs
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
We explain the creation of “flow” in social media and real spaces using AI technology to colorize black-and-white stock photographs from digital archives and other locations. When visualizing the colors that the photographs should have had, the impressions of “freezing” in black-and-white photographs are “rebooted,” and viewers can more easily imagine the events depicted. This bridges the psychological gap between past events and modern daily life, sparking conversations. The “flow” generated here causes the emergence of lively communication and increases the value of information. This method can help to pass precious materials and memories of past events into the future.
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