As individuals, we have a personal identity. As members of a community we have broader, shared identities, alongside our individual nuances. From these shared identities, tribes, communities and societal structures have emerged. When meeting new…
I am fascinated by CLIP guided neural interpretations of text. There’s something delightful about the interplay between the metaphorical language of poetry and the dream-like hallucinations of the net. Some of the lines produced amazing…
Just over seven years ago, I created a generative work called ‘Machine Imagined Art‘, based on the then recently released data set from The Tate. The system uses the ontology from the Tate data, and…
We (The Private Sector) managed to record and release a track in the depths of lockdown called Quarantine Age Kicks. As we move into the inevitable second wave and associated constrictions, the song seems even…
I had a promotional branded Rubik’s Cube lying around, which I picked up, I think, at #pydata. Having lived through the original craze in the 80s, the object has an enduring resonance. It struck me…
If you’ve got an hour to spare, you could spend it listening to me talk about #deepfake, synthetic media and why you shouldn’t believe everything you see. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/here-right-now/id1518937248?i=1000480919062
William Blake seems all the rage at the moment. The ‘artist/poet/visionary’ thing has a universal appeal and tends to resonate throughout the generations. I shan’t go into details of his biography, I’ll leave that to…
I tried lip-sync’ing to Prince via Avatarify and recording the results. Frame-rate is a bit crappy, but not bad for ‘real-time-processing’ The future of karaoke, perhaps?
The story of boy meets girl is as old as time. One particular manifestation of the love story is the photo-comic; popular in the 1980s, often shoddily produced and sold to bored teenage girls. This…