Artificial Intelligence Art: Parenting a new genre

The first-ever show of art created by Artificial Intelligence just opened at the Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi. Presented by Aparajita Jain, Gradient Descent brings together seven pioneering inter

Aug 21, 2018, 13:58 IST1 min

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Title: Deep Meditations Artist: Memo Akten From: TurkeyMedium: 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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Title: Imaginary LandscapeArtist: Nao TokuiFrom: JapanMedium: 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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Title: Perception Engines Artist: Tom WhiteFrom: US Medium: L PrintsFirst, 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.

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