The Kitty AI
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterIt is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free zone with a network of Artificial Intelligences. She lives in mobile devices of the citizens and can love up to 3 Million people. Excerpt from “The Kitty AI”: “I was only 8 […]
#Love Apparatus
Highcross Shopping Centre 5 Shires Lane, LeicesterLocated at the Eastgate Entrance, Highcross Shopping Centre @apparatus_love Can apparatus love? We don’t know for sure, but surely they can say things about love! “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) is an art installation created for the ART-AI FESTIVAL, taking place Leicester between 30 April and 13 May 2018. #LoveApparatus delivers generative love text aphorisms that will be projected […]
Installation : Interstitial Space 2019
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterIn this new interactive installation for the ART-AI festival, Klingemann has created an open feedback loop between the viewer and a portrait- generating adversarial network (GAN) – a type of AI system where two neural networks are pitted against each other. Through a camera, the system behind the installation observes its own output - as […]
Installation : Neural Zoo
Haymarket Shopping Centre 1 Kildare Street, LeicesterNeural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the combination of known elements into a new, previously unseen element. The creator in this case is the algorithm itself but with a human artist as its muse. Isn’t all art made by humans an execution or reshaping of data absorbed through biological neurons? How […]
Installation : Neural Zoo
Highcross Shopping Centre 5 Shires Lane, LeicesterNeural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the combination of known elements into a new, previously unseen element. The creator in this case is the algorithm itself but with a human artist as its muse. Isn’t all art made by humans an execution or reshaping of data absorbed through biological neurons? How […]
Installation : Working with Useless Machines
Haymarket Theatre 1 Garrick Walk, LeicesterNadine Lessio's Working with Useless Machines is a video artwork. The work documents a critical design project exploring some speculative and humorous thoughts around what happens when smart devices go against their intended functionality. Focusing specifically on developing routines for the Alexa and Google Home, the project considered personal assistants that have emotions, internal motivations […]
Installation : Neural Synthesis
Leicester Central Library Bishop Street, Leicester, LeicestershireGene Kogan's Neural Synthesis is a video artwork that explores and expands upon the technique popularly known as ‘deep dream’. This is an iterative process for optimising the pixels of an image to obtain a desired activation state in a trained convolutional network. It primarily experiments with the dynamics of feedback-generated ‘deep dream’ videos, where […]
Installation : Britbot
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterThe Britbot was originally commissioned for Sky Arts as part of their Arts 50 programme. It is an online voice activated chatbot that asks open-ended questions about ‘Britishness’ following topics in the UK citizenship test and corresponding book Life in the United Kingdom. Britbot responds to the answers given by someone interacting with it by […]
VIP Launch : Gallery
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterCelebrating the launch of the ART-AI Festival at Phoenix with an opportunity to see Klingemann's and Heaney's work. Installations are open throughout the festival (May 16-31).