Alexander Mordvintsev (2019/2019) by Alexander MordvintsevBarbican Centre
Artists + Machine Intelligence (AMI) and Google Arts & Culture have been collaborating since 2016, bringing together artists and engineers to work to explore creative applications of machine learning.
Here are some of the highlights from the last five years...
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Machine Learning Summit (2016)
To facilitate collaboration at the intersection of art and technology, AMI and Google Arts & Culture gather artists and engineers at the Google Arts & Culture Lab in Paris to explore interdisciplinary approaches to art and machine learning.
Installation photo from the Barbican's AI: More than Human exhibition featuring Deep Dream, created by scientist, artist and Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev (2019/2019) by Barbican Centre and Alexander MordvintsevBarbican Centre
Butoh x DeepDream by Kaoru Okumura (2016)
Artist Kaoru Okumura and Google engineer Mike Tyka collaborate on a performance for the Seattle Butoh Festival. The work combines the intensity of Butoh, a style of Japanese modern dance, with the strange and wonderful nature of DeepDream.
Installation view, "DeepDream: The Art of Neural Networks" (2017) by Unknown
DeepDream: The Art of Neural Networks (2016)
Together with Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, AMI hosts an inaugural exhibition, benefit, and lecture series to showcase early generative works by artists Alexander Mordvintsev, Mario Klingemann, and Memo Atken, among others.
Ross Goodwin for Irish Times by Brenda Fitzsimons
1 The Road by Ross Goodwin (2017)
Artist Ross Goodwin sets off on a road-trip to generate machine poetry. Connecting a surveillance camera, GPS unit, microphone and clock to a neural network, the sensors are the starting points for narration: an image to caption, a location to describe, a line of dialogue to expand on, or simply, the time itself. The text is now available as a book: 1 the Road.
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Installation photo from the Barbican's AI: More than Human exhibition featuring Es Devlin's POEMPortrait's installation (2019/2019) by Barbican Centre and Es DevlinBarbican Centre
Poem Portraits by Es Devlin (2017)
Es Devlin collaborates with Google Arts & Culture to explore machine learning as a tool and collaborator in her practice. The result is Poem Portraits, a collective artwork that uses an algorithm trained on poetry to create generative "poem portraits".
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WDCH Dreams – Exterior Projection Rendering by Refik Anadol StudioLA Phil
WDCH Dreams by Refik Anadol (2018)
Artist Refik Anadol is best known for transforming architectural spaces and façades into canvases for live media art. For this collaboration with the LA Philharmonic, Anadol uses audio and video generative learning models to interpret and visualize nearly 45 terabytes of data from LA Phil’s digital archives.
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Live installation of Please Feed The Lions onsite in Trafalgar Square (2018-09-18) by Es DevlinLondon Design Festival
Please Feed the Lions by Es Devlin (2018)
Continuing the collaboration with Es Devlin, Please Feed the Lions sees a fifth bright red lion added to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
Visitors are invited to “feed the lion” a word, each word triggering the generation of a poetic couplet that appears in the lions mouth and is projected up Nelson's Column.
Still taken from nimiia cétiï, Jenna Sutela, 2018. In collaboration with Memo Akten and Damien Henry, as part of n-dimensions, Google Arts & Culture's artist-in-residence program at Somerset House Studios. by Jenna SutelaSomerset House
nimiia cétiï by Jenna Sutela (2018)
Inspired by experiments in interspecies communication and aspiring to connect with a world beyond our consciousness, Sutella's nimiia cétiï documents the interactions between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and footage of extremophilic bacteria.
The artwork explores the computer as a medium, channeling messages from entities that usually cannot speak.
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Infinite Patterns by Pinar & Viola (2018)
Artist duo Pinar & Viola work with Alex Mordvintsev, creator of DeepDream, to curate a selection of inspiring images that serve as the dataset to generate patterns and visions of the future.
Scene from Lauren McCarthy's SOMEONE installation - a human smart home command centre (2019/2019) by Lauren McCarthyBarbican Centre
SOMEONE by Lauren McCarthy (2019)
Artist Lauren McCarthy’s SOMEONE turns viewers into human intelligence assistants for four participants who voluntarily wired their homes with custom-designed smart devices.
Scene captured by LAUREN, Lauren McCarthy's installation as a human smart home system.Barbican Centre
On computers in the gallery, you can watch people make dinner, switch on their lights, and respond to custom requests, all while feeling uncomfortably voyeuristic.
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Installation view, "New Technologies, New Visions," Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 2019 (2019) by Luke Williams
New Technologies, New Visions (2019)
Featuring works by Tom White, Casey Reas, and Anna Ridler, this project space exhibition at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair includes a text essay by Hito Steyerl that considers the implications of early AI, setting the scene for new technologies we may want to build.
Living Archive by Google Arts and Culture Lab, Studio Wayne McGregorStudio Wayne McGregor
Living Archive with Wayne McGregor (2019)
What happens when you combine artificial intelligence with an award-winning choreographer’s archive?
Google Arts & Culture Lab collaborates with Wayne McGregor to turn his archive into a creative tool, using machine learning to allow anyone, anywhere to take inspiration from McGregor’s body of work.
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Front cover of "Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks" by Casey Reas (2020) by Anteism Books
Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks (2020)
Artist and educator Casey Reas explores what it's like to work with machine learning– specifically, generative adversarial networks (GANs)– in this non-technical primer for readers interested in creative applications of AI technologies.
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AMI Grant recipients 19-20 (2020)
AMI Grants Programme (2019)
In 2019, Google Arts & Culture and Google AI announce a new collaborative grant program to support contemporary artists working with machine learning in their art practices.
Watch this short film to discover and explore artworks developed by this year's Artists + Machine Intelligence grant recipients.
