Find By Image: Machine Learning for Artists

Studio-based course introducing the field of machine learning to artists, designers and performers. The goal of this course is to unpack and familiarize ourselves with available machine learning tools, which we use to plan and produce works of art. In-class labs open a preliminary investigation into the conceptual and technical underpinnings of key machine learning methods, exploring their application through hands-on coding exercises. Readings and discussions will attempt to connect the theory, practice, and poetics of machine learning, and to place our efforts into wider ethical, social, philosophical, and art-historical contexts. In the process, we will expand on the general phenomena of learning, experience, and creativity as subject matters in themselves.

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Topics In Interactivity And Games: Empathy And Memory

A studio-based class taught in the Design | Media Arts program at UCLA, working alongside the Center For the Art of Performance’s CODA project to create new media artworks using data sourced from performance—including video, images, audience surveys and biometrics (heart rate, EEG signals, etc.), to explore how audience interaction / engagement with performance contributes to the formation of memory and empathy.

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The Open Score Workshop

A hands-on, collaborative research group that explores the use of “scores” across disciplines as experimental, descriptive, and performative devices. A “score” is a form of composition, and a way of communicating processes over time using language or symbols to define events. Scoring as a creative, generative process, is not limited to any one field, media, or genre. The workshop has two central components:

Part 1:
Performing and evaluating historical scores, in order to gain pragmatic insight into some of the fundamental strategies and effects of scoring. There are infinite new methods to be discovered among the wide variety of approaches to scoring.

Part 2:
Generating new scores. Each participant, instructors and students alike, practices regularly creating and revising original scores, generating a score every two days to form a collection of “48 Hour Scores” that accumulates over the course of the workshop. Each participant selects two of their scores to be performed and evaluated by the group.

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