Foundation of my media-art-practice
Play between Magic and Technology
The machine is in control of the outcome: this results in endless streams, variations and unpredictable behavior
Queer feminist approach towards generative AI (wanting a ethical, inclusive, and socially just technological landscape)
Immersive installations: playful DIY high and low tech
Current overarching research questions: Generative AI (tech)
Ongoing question: There is a lack of diversity in gender, race, and cultural narratives throughout the development and application of existing AI services. Is it possible to have a queer feminist approach and outcome while co-creating with these AIs?
Ongoing question: How to not only focus on AIs ethical pitfalls but also establish extended views, works and knowledge sharing on the creative potential of generative AI (that direct or indirect actively promote inclusivity)?
While being at a point that it’s hard to compeet with the big players when wanting to make your own AI. What is the most ethical way to do this?
Tools are getting more public, high quality and accesible - in image creation this happened last years. Image creation comes close to the imperceptable. Same is happening for video (a new form of glitch art) and audio. So currently we are in a AI renaissance/communication revolution, to what new alien art forms will this take us?
What can be meaningful hacking strategies to get insights in invisible workings of AI services? Tried a lot last year, but only the image to text (clip interregator) - to image gives a deeper insight in machine logic. Would love to extend this toolbox!
The most exiting part of working with generative AI for me is latent space, where you can discover the space between existing styles. What are alternative ways to visualize what happens in latent space?
Experimental technical interests
Explore running new opensource versions of image + text generation AIs locally on my own computers
How to integrate style transfer to change a complete (analogue and digital) environment. Can you styletransfer a whole exhibition?
Explore LLm powered chatbots with a personality description. Intergrating AI in chatbots/new works means making them addressable, interactive and able to give infinite responses.
Develop a genre knob that changes styles of real time generations.
Current overarching research questions: aleatory.agent (material)
AI tools often involve disembodied interactions, these questions focus on the physical interaction between the artist, the audience,
the machine and generative AI.
How do computational and robotic tools influence and shape traditional artistic techniques such as drawing and sculpture, and how can AI tools enhance these existing artistic practices?
Does using robotic tools always bring a sense of randomness to the collaboration, and what impact does that have?
How can I interact with generative systems like neural networks and algorithms during the creative process in a more embodied way?
Who becomes the author when the work is generated by a machine, and what are the implications?
How does the use of robots and agency assigned to artificial systems influence the audience’s perception of creativity and authorship?
How to measure aesthetic appreciation of a material artwork produced by a robot?
What is the significance of a digital image in relation to material artworks, and how does the human vs. AI authorship impacts this?
Can strategically manipulate input features help to achieve desired effects and enlarge understanding the machine’s responsiveness?