AI Art
Dance Machine- A 'living Archive'
Developed in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, Studio Wayne McGregor has produced an AI choreography tool, which captures movement data through a webcam, and generates brand new options for the most likely choreographic sequence to follow. The choreography produced directly reflects the personal style of a dancer of McGregor's company, after they input 100s of hours of movement content from his 25 years of work.
This can be used in choreography itself, but McGregor also demonstrated its use in live performance, premiering a piece on stage in LA with his more sophisticated version, which has the ability to record longer, and therefore more complex movement phrases.
I had the pleasure of experimenting with this tool October 2019, and it was fascinating as both a dancer and a technologist to see how this software could be used, adapted and developed.
AI portraits
NVIDIA researchers have used a generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce portraits of people who don't exist. To create these faces, NVIDIA researchers trained the AI for a whole week using 8 powerful GPUs.
Mini Prototype
To demonstrate the use of creative AI, I used the sound composition tool AIVA, which generates a piece of music, composed via AI, that is in line with parameters set such as style, tempo and key.
You can listen to a composition here
This demonstrated how simple AI is to use by those who are not technically minded. While there is some software to program and teach your own AI, that holds a complexity far beyond my understanding, and at this level, I am just pleased to have an understanding of what is out there and the fundamentals of how it works.
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