----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hello All, My apologies for jumping on this older message, but I could not resist responding to the subject.
Mark, thank you for posting info on this event. I will check out the video stream. Since 2008 I've been developing a series of site-specific installations that use machine learning and computer vision to construct their own dreams (and perceptions). I came to the work after masters study in the context of machine creativity and thought of dreams as a possible non-rational, non-problem-solving, non-task-oriented form of novelty generation. I ended up doing a PhD on the topic and built a system meant as a site-specific generative artwork that 'senses' the world through a live camera and creates its own internal simulation of reality that is manifest in perceptual, dreaming and mind-wandering modes. The approach and model of dreaming is currently being used to appropriate popular cinematic depictions of AI. For more info: http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2009/dm2/ http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2012/an-artist-in-processa-computational-sketch-of-dreaming-machine-3/ http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2014/watching-and-dreaming-2001-a-space-odyssey-2014/ http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2017/watching-blade-runner-2016/ https://youtu.be/Clp0blcHG8M https://youtu.be/xYtt8qSwJws Ben Bogart, PhD www.ekran.org On 2017-05-22 08:45 AM, Mark Marino wrote: > ----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- > > > > Hi, Machine Dreamers, > > I'm so excited for this week's discussion. Our Machine Dreams encounter > was one I will not forget. For those of you who missed it, you can > watch a somewhat pixelated version here. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFYFaWrqZik > > As I read over our publication from Machine Dreams, flip through the > pages of Radio heart, or think about our time together, I'm struck by > the shear humanity of the whirls with robots. Or rather, I'm struck by > the parts of humanity that emerge from the whirls. > > Why are we so drawn to the machines of our machine dreams, as people, as > artists, as dreamers? I'm starting to think that it is not their > inability to be completely human but instead their ability to fully > embody one part of the human attributes without manifesting the full > meat sack of messy, squishy embodied being. In other words, they allow > us to imagine intensely our humanity in part. Not metonymic but in > isolation. > > An emotion. A logical flow. A sense of consideration without empathy. > Knowledge without understanding. > > But our intense encounter with even that part of humanity -- that part > of humanity isolated from the whole -- is transformative. > > "I still hear you radio heart beating > Inside the meat of mine." > > And of course, no doubt this partiality is part and parcel of our > experience of one another. > > That is my first thought. Looking forward to our conversation. > > Best, > Mark Marino > > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu > _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
