I have several aims with making the images that are a major part of this project: to explore creative collaborations with AI, to create a collection of images depicting distant future AI creation myths and to think through some of … Read More
What would future artificially intelligent machines think humans looked like if they’d never seen one? With only scattered fragments of data about our time, they might try to reconstruct our history from scraps – after all, history and archaeology is … Read More
Earlier this week I adapted a computer vision technique intended for photos to isolate the faces in 2500 early Renaissance paintings from wikiart.org. I am hoping to create new faces from these using a GAN, in order to represent how … Read More
The first and simplest GANs such as DC GANs produce images that mimic the images they were trained on. (See the black and white digits produced by a DC GAN in the blog post Getting Started with GANs). Others have … Read More
Introducing Huxley This week I had the pleasure of working with Huxley, an ST Robotics ST-12 arm in Phase Lab. Huxley has a 1m reach and can write his name with a pen. We did not shake hands, but neither … Read More
For the last two weeks I have focused on concepts and techniques for creating mythological images. Generally, I come up with a mythological scenario and then create the image around it – the civilization of machines being unearthed from the … Read More
Part of my process of defining and refining my project has been to look for moments when my various interests can be combined in one project. In the past that has meant doing something with a social conscience that involves … Read More
Part of this project is to take the output of AI and make it physical. These objects and creations work better and are less confined to our present day when they are not experienced on a computer screen. I am … Read More
How to make the images? In my last blog post, “Is It Art?” I questioned whether making composite images from the output of other people’s GANs was an appropriate approach. (A GAN is a type of neural network for image … Read More
As I mentioned in a previous post (“A Big Change in the World of GAN Image-Making”), Kate and I had been discussing compositing creation myth images out of the images made by neural networks, and the images they’re trained on. … Read More