Talk : Love Apparatus
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomSpeaker : Fabrizio Poltronieri Can apparatus love? We don’t know for sure, but surely they can say things about love! This artist talk will reflect on the development of the artwork featured as part of last year's ART-AI Festival. “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) was installed at the Highcross Shopping Centre and delivered generative love text aphorisms based […]
Talk : State of the AI-Art
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomSpeaker : Luba Elliot This talk will give an overview of how artists and creative technologists are using and thinking about artificial intelligence. Over the past couple of years, there has been increasing interest in applying the latest advances in machine learning to creative projects in art, music, film, theatre and beyond. From Google's DeepDream and style transfer to […]
Keynote : Jake Elwes – Creative Dilemmas
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomSpeaker : Jake Elwes The creative possibilities opened up by machine learning and the implications of generating new original content from an algorithm - which has learnt from vast amounts of data using generative neural networks - seem conceptually extraordinary. Early experiments included generating images of electric sheep, clouds in skies, and tricking a censoring […]
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom
Panel : State of the AI-Art The panel is chaired by Ernest Edmonds, with discussants from the day's keynotes and talks. As well as picking up on the issues related to the creative processes, curatorial considerations and audience engagement strategies, this is an opportunity for all conference participants to ask burning questions that may have […]
