drawing

Shape of you

Students of the BORG Bad Leonfelden (AT)

More than forty students from BORG Bad Leonfelden worked the entire year on this approximately ninety-second rotoscope animation, a dance performance to the song Shape of You.

Selbst mit Hund, Selbst mit Fisch

VALIE EXPORT (AT)

VALIE EXPORT was born in Linz in 1940, VALIE EXPORT and lives in Vienna.

Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday

Memo Akten (TR)

Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday is a video and an interactive installation where the recordings taken by a live camera aimed at a table covered with objects are analyzed by a series of neural networks trained on different data sets (ocean, fire, clouds, and flowers).

The Seeker

Nye Thompson (UK)

The Seeker is a proto-AI that travels the world virtually looking through compromised surveillance camera eyes and describing its visions. Named for Ptah-Seker, the artist/technologist god of Ancient Egypt, who created the world by speaking the words to describe it, this project looks at how the act of describing the world might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.

NORAA – Machinic Doodles

Jessica In (UK/AU)

Machinic Doodles is an interactive game installation that examines the collaboration between a human and a robot named NORAA, an artificial intelligence that is learning to draw.

Humanity (Fall of the Damned)

Scott Eaton (US/UK)

One thousand hand-drawn figures, “painted” with Eaton’s Bodies neural network. The composition of tumbling, intertwined figures embodies the visceral human experience and humanity’s ongoing struggle with its own nature and its consequences.