Artificial Intelligence Art: Parenting a new genre
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Artist: Anna Ridler
From: United Kingdom
Medium: Video and 12 illustrations
Anna draws sketches of stills from the first four minutes of The Fall of the House of Usher, a 1928 avant-grade silent film. She then teaches the AI algorithm to transform them into actual film frames. The rest of the film is then auto-generated by the AI from just the drawings. As the film progresses beyond the first four minutes, the interaction between Anna’s drawing and the AI-generated movie frame breaks down into fascinating visual effects paralleling the storyline of the original film.
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Title: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Algorithm
Artist: Harshit Agrawal
From: India
Medium: Set of 20 prints
Agrawal teaches his AI algorithm what a human surgery looks like, by showing it several videos of surgical dissections. The algorithm is then allowed to produce its own images of an imagined human dissection. By varying the amount of training the algorithm gets, Agrawal generates abstract painterly images that are disquieting. The title alludes to a 1632 painting of Rembrandt’s, which showed a gathering watching the dissection of a human arm, in an era of troubled fascination with medical technology. Here, we are watching an AI-imagined dissection, in our era of troubled fascination with artificial intelligence.
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Title: Closed Loop
Artist: Jake Ewes
From: United Kingdom
Medium: 2 channel video
AI algorithms can be taught not just a visual language, but also the ability to describe images verbally. So what happens when an AI algorithm that interprets images in words converses with another AI that interprets words in images? The video eavesdrops on this eerie conversation, which shifts between the logical, to the enigmatic, to the frankly incomprehensible and in the end, a profound sense of displacement. Much like what happens when two humans, perhaps from different cultures, meet
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Artist: Mario Klingemann
From: Germany
Medium: Video
A webcam trained on the artist is continually transformed by the AI algorithm into a portrait. Because all that the AI has ‘seen’ previously are portraits by the Old Masters, it tries to transform anything it sees into one, including the artist’s. In a continuous loop, the previous portrait is mixed again with the webcam image stream and fed back to the AI algorithm to create a new portrait. The accumulating errors and instabilities lead to grotesque distortions, thus re-imagining self-portraiture in a new and eerie way.
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Artist: Memo Akten
From: Turkey
Medium: 4 channel video
Akten exposes an AI algorithm to two sets of images: photographs representing natural and scientific categories (beaches, nebulae, etc), and images of some 20,000 artworks from the Google Art Archive. Another AI algorithm is exposed to soundtracks: Religious chants and rituals sourced from YouTube. The two AIs then work in tandem to create an incredible audio-visual experience. The viewer is confronted with many moments of unexpected surprises at the connections that the machine finds between various human semantic fields
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Artist: Nao Tokui
From: Japan
Medium: 3 channel video
One AI algorithm stitches together three images from Google Street View that, together, looks like one continuous scene. At the same time, another AI that has been exposed to sound-image correspondence from a massive amount of video data, creates an original imagined soundtrack for this imaginary landscape. The work creates meaning by its unpredictable juxtapositions, paying tribute to virtualisation of reality and the rampant look-alikeness of places characteristic of globalism.
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Artist: Tom White
From: US
Medium: L Prints
First, White nudges the algorithms to ‘sketch’ lines, blobs and shades that make a simple drawing.Then an AI algorithm trained on countless images of a physical object, let’s say an electric fan, transforms the initial ‘sketch’ into an abstract representation of the physical object i.e the electric fan. The abstract image, with a visual language of its own, may even be mistakenly deemed as ‘having explicit content’ by an online image analysis AI. Thus bringing up deep questions about the perception of objects, and the nature of perception itself.
