
Future Renaissance – Exhibition
PostI wanted to exhibit this work in a tent or cave-like space with unconventional lighting and hanging. Time constraints meant I wouldn’t be able to do too much more building, however, and I didn’t want to reduce the accessibility of … Read More
GANs and Icons
PostA quick recap of what this project is about: Future Renaissance imagines a distant future society of intelligent machines that only dimly remember humanity. With digital records lost or corrupted, the machines study humanity’s surviving physical artworks, using this imagery … Read More
Figurative vs Symbolic
PostI’m continuing my adventure of making images using GANs, a machine learning technique that uses two neural networks trained on a large number of images to produce new examples. This week I made some new portraits. This week I was … Read More
Making pictures
PostMy process is to create raw materials using neural networks (GANs), composite them together by hand, and transfer the results to a gilded panel. For now, I am creating the designs inscribed on gold by hand in Illustrator. The process … Read More
Finding Faces, colours, and materials: more machine vision tools for building training datasets
PostIn a recent post, I worked on improving the raw material my GANs pass along for me to use making composite portraits. I noticed that the Renaissance faces I’m using for training do a lot more head tilting than the … Read More
Inkjet and water gilding
PostMy project imagines stories told through pictures by distant future artificial intelligent machines, who rummage through humanity’s physical traces, finding mostly e-waste and some preserved works of art. I am training neural networks (GANs) to create new images from large … Read More
New figures, new faces
PostI’ve been using faces extracted from Renaissance paintings to train the neural networks (GANs) and create “new” faces and portraits. I am collaborating with these neural networks to make portraits of what distant future artificially intelligent machines might remember as … Read More
Transfer learning
PostI hoped that transfer learning would allow me to do more with less. Less training data, less computing power, and less time. In the context of image generation with GANs, transfer learning means taking a neural network (GAN) trained on … Read More
A few finished pieces
PostThis week I showed some of the pieces I’ve made so far to fellow students and faculty in the Digital Futures program at OCAD U. A quick recap: my project asks how intelligent machines would portray their own creation if … Read More