words – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Closed Loop https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/closed-loop/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:40:09 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3560

Jake Elwes (UK)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fast becoming part of everyday life. Based on AI models currently used, among other things, in content moderation and surveillance, the artworks explore the “latent space” of the AI as it processes and imagines the world for itself, dreaming in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us.

Collaborative project with Roland Arnoldt

In Closed Loop two artificial intelligence models converse with each other—one with words the other with images—in a never-ending feedback loop. The words of one describe the images of the other, which then seeks to describe the words with a fresh image. The neural networks become lost in their own nuances, sparking and branching off each other as they converse.

Credits

www.jakeelwes.com
Special thanks to Anh Nguyen et al. at Evolving-AI for their work on GANs

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Robert Andrew (AU)

Data Stratification evolved from ideas of the tools and technologies that colonizers use to inhabit and disrupt the colonized in Australia, and to fragment these people and their culture. The artist sees text as one of these colonizing technologies. When you lose your language, strong links to communicate and oral methods to connect to your culture are severed.

Data Stratification displays different words and phrases on a small video screen. These words are English interpretations of the Yawuru language, an oral language spoken by the artist’s aboriginal ancestors. These words have been converted from the English text form into code. This G-code is used to drive a machine derived from a plotter or printer.

An X, Y axis machine, converts the code into four axes comprising 25 strings each. The machine traces each letter of the word; however, no visual representation of the letter is apparent unless the movement is carefully observed. This process removes the primacy of the English text in its visual translation. The final destination is four rows of objects hanging from the ceiling, each row behind the other. The landscapes are abstracted with no trace of the text that drives it.

Credits

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Data Stratification – a new work commissioned by Museum of Brisbane.

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