Tonight’s talks - About Transdisciplinary New Media #3
The Art of Google Dream by Andrew Voxakis Google Dream is an artificial intelligence experiment that uses the vast “neural network” or a computer system modeled on the human brain. Deep Dream, as it’s called, intends to help people further understand how neural networks in computer systems and AI technologies function. Can scientific experiments, such as this, help further and push today’s artistic ascetic to new levels? Will these alterations last or is it just a fleeting fad? Who does it benefit more, the scientists or the creative professionals? Ultimately, where does the hybridization of science and art lead us?
Inverting the Narrow Street by Claire Leggett What if we’re breaking planes all of the time like two dimensional shapes passing through the third dimension. What if psychologically we’re always walking toward a point and never arriving due to the cultural lines of perspective drawings and paintings that started with Masaccio – The Tribute Money c.1426-27. How do we de-fragment these lines that have been ingrained in order to reimagine space. I started by using scrap pieces of canvas, that were thrown away in a painting class, to create raw unpainted surfaces. Now these works are just starting the discovery of pushing into extremely minimal coded images using Processing (processing.org), and how do you have a canvas that’s never touched with a mark-making material (a brush, pencil, etc.) but describes space to challenge our cultural notions of it. “Inverting the Narrow Street,” is about the traditional lines that draw urban streets coming at you to create prisms instead of away from you to say that space is yours to have, not just walk through, run through. Imaging space as coming toward you, at you, strives to contextualize that you’re in the point you’re going toward.