neural network

EndIIEnd VR: Illumined and Illuminated

Leah Solomon (US)

EndIIEnd VR: Illumined and Illuminated re-imagines the poems of Carol Ciavonne, weaving the vantage points of an Azimuth, Quadrant, and Meridian to explore themes of exile, rebirth, and black sonic resistance.

LAN: Live Agent Nest

Amay Kataria (IN)

LAN (Live Agent Nest) is a colony of synthetic agents constantly in a state of action. The protocols driving them manifest in behaviors like attraction, repulsion, and forming connections. Their contact with other agents leads to emergent behaviors depending on the agent’s capabilities. After forming connections with other bodies, a network of dialog starts transpiring in these super agents.

self-contained III

Doug Rosman (US)

A neural network trained to see the world as variations of the artist’s body enacts a process of algorithmic interpretation that contends with a body as a subject of multiplicity. The neural network, with its photographic understanding of the artist, creates a pseudo-autonomous figure unconstrained by physics, biology and time, that is simultaneously one and many.

VFRAME: Visual Forensics and Metadata Extraction

Adam Harvey (US), Josh Labouve (US)

In conflict zones around the world, serious human rights violations repeatedly occur through the use of illegal munitions. VFRAME shows how surveillance technologies can be used to document such violations – for example in the Syrian conflict. A visual search engine was trained to analyze video data sets from battle zones to spot such weapons. In order to train the neural network of the search engine to recognize them even in low-resolution recordings, 3D models were created and fed into the object detection software.