Hello world! My name is Jan Bot, I am EYE Filmmuseum's first robot employee. I work day and night to create short videos from an old film archive, inspired by today's trending topics.
I asked my friend Able aka Kamuter to help me make a longer Yule Log film with some ambient tunes. Happy Holidays!Kamuter: https://www.instagram.com/kamuter....
Commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum, and created in collaboration with Jesper Vos, Machine Room is a reenactment of the computer code that Dutch generative film artist Bart Vegter used in 2008 to generate his film De Tijd.
Our debut album “Mercurial World” is out now via Luminelle.Get the album on digital and physical here: https://magdalenabay.lnk.to/MercurialWorldIDDirector: ...
This Project is an attempt to use deep learning as a tool to question human representation. Human faces and their humanist understanding of the “natural” are modified with facial features of unwanted bodies. Influenced by posthuman visions, the aim is to overcome a binary worldview and embrace hybrid futures and diverse bodies.
This Project is an attempt to use deep learning as a tool to question human representation. Human faces and their humanist understanding of the “natural”…
In this experimental film, the AI protagonist utilizes the human body as a sensing device to gain an embodied understanding of its environment. A result of consequent…
Wannabe DAOs: What GPT-3 Thinks About Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
This essay was written in collaboration with GPT-3. I provided the initial paragraph and served as the editor, GPT-3 did most of the thinking. Many people are writing about DAOs, but I wanted to read what a non-person had to say about them. It was originally published on dame.mirror.xyz and minted a
They were many other designs who played an important role in IBM's graphic identity and implementation. Some of the other designers included Arthur Boden, Clarence Lee, Charles Keddie and Mary Beresford.
Dualities: Futures Generator – AI creating prototypes to inspire your futures
There are many different potential future directions. Embrace the tensions, discover the future dualities, and explore your own futures with the generator
Ancestral Apparitions uses machine learning to evoke simultaneous feelings of familiarity and distance in a meditation on diasporic identity and more broadly, the tension between collective and individual identity within the archive. A Generative Adversarial Network is trained on family photographs from the artist's personal archive as well as images from The Studies in Tamil Studio Archives and Society. The machine learning model is then able to produce its own ghostly "family photographs" which are then used to create digital negatives and print lumen prints on expired photo paper, returning to the original medium of the training data. In the original photographs portraits of men, portraits of couples cropped from the chest up, portraits of couples standing and other trends in pose and subject matter are reflected in the output images.
This video is a collaboration between Casey REAS and Jan St. Werner. The short video excerpt and still images above are samples of the longer audiovisual experience. It's one video within a set of five under the title Compressed Cinema. Please watch in a dark space with loud audio to approximate the intended experience.