This Thursday: Joy and ethics in making AI art
Or how I found the universe in my data self. A Talk by me: join online or in Glasgow
Talk: Joy and ethics in making AI art, or how I found the universe in my data self
Date: Thursday 25 January 2024, 6pm - 7pm
Location: Online, or at 22 Richmond St, Glasgow.
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Please join me tomorrow for a talk journeying through my past 4 years making art with AI, revealing AI through art, and my efforts to overcome my techno-pessism and fall in love with AI.
Throughout this time, I’ve begun from the premise of using my own data in my AI models. This is partly to sidestep the ethics of harvesting data from others, but mainly it’s an instinct to avoid blending my own individual voice into an amalgamate of human expression. It’s led me to make much more personal work than I’d done before.
I’ve still found myself wandering into unfamiliar ethical landscapes, from morphing together the faces of those who have been dearest to me, to creating a solo performance with an AI voice trained on early recordings of my wife, Adriana Minu, developing her vocal performance practice. I think contradictions between intentions and realities can be particularly revealing about what’s missing in how we think about data and AI.
More recently, I’ve been lost in hyperspace, working with glitches and physical interaction to build an intuition about how this AI model that I trained in my own image(s) perceives the world. The process has left me contemplating the nature of the universe, the emergence of reality through combinations of squiggles, and the central role of perception in it all.
I’m just putting my notes together now for it, and I’m very excited to be sharing much of this stuff. Hope to see you tomorrow.
The talk is being hosted by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute and Scotland Europa.
Tim
Glasgow, 24 Jan 2024