The Dancing Robots are Here!
[email protected]This is a page to accompany my contribution to Ivan Sun's Curated Exhibition "The Robots are Coming" Dudley House June 14-24 2024
https://therobotsarecoming.org/
https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/arts-culture-theatres/exhibitions/the-robots-are-coming-to-bendigo-group-exhibition
"one night in June"(digital print variable size,2024)
will be at the Gallery accompanying two short Video Artworks.
The related prints, seen below in miniature, are also
available by
contacting me directly or order in various forms from coffee mugs to phone cases and posters, art prints etc through RedBubble
https://www.redbubble.com/people/Edmundio/shop?asc=u
or email [email protected]
https://therobotsarecoming.org/
https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/arts-culture-theatres/exhibitions/the-robots-are-coming-to-bendigo-group-exhibition
"one night in June"(digital print variable size,2024)
will be at the Gallery accompanying two short Video Artworks.
The related prints, seen below in miniature, are also
available by
contacting me directly or order in various forms from coffee mugs to phone cases and posters, art prints etc through RedBubble
https://www.redbubble.com/people/Edmundio/shop?asc=u
or email [email protected]
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“Steady States and Unstable Matter.” Paul Fletcher 2024 VIDEO HD Stereo Sound. Duration: 4 minutes 22 Seconds. 15 second preview : |
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Current and emerging digital tools based on machine learning /code/ ‘artificial intelligence’ are both a steady state of development, change and unstable, disruptive, matter.
This video accompanies a new album of music made in collaboration with a musician in Germany whom Ive never met, but have worked with remotely for the last ten years. In terms of the music ‘Steady States’ relate to the obstinate ostinatos or insistent pulse and drones of several of the tracks and ‘Unstable Matter’ refers to the more vapour like mysterious atmospheric soundscapes. https://fl2c.bandcamp.com https://elektramusic.bandcamp.com/music This video is the result of my first experiments with some ‘a.i.’ image and moving image tools currently available to me. Machine Learning assisted image-making in ‘conversation’ with the following ‘robots’ or computer tools; Adobe Firefly, MidJourney, Runway, Sora. I experimented with text- based prompts; from simple phrases to dense paragraphs and symbolic/poetic descriptions which produced the most interesting non-literal or surprising image results for me. I also used some of my own photos as image references for the tools to create new images from or interpolate/morph between. In keeping with my own preferred style of working I used established digital video editing, composing and re-compositing of many simultaneous layers including adding a few short cycles of hand drawn/scribbled digital painting, retiming, re-framing and editing. |
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“The Dancing Robots are here.”
Paul Fletcher 2024
VIDEO HD Stereo Sound. Duration: 1 minutes 3 Seconds
A playful re-reworking of my own work, “Home is inside us” my own machine learning process. Included here as a traditional ‘digital’ animation companion to the “Steady states” a.i experiment. Artificial intelligence: zero % Limited human intelligence 100%. ‘Robots’ made from collage of photos of old electricity meter boxes and cicadas. Animated with ‘hand placed digital keyframes’, digital puppets, recorded movement gestures, sound responsive background patterns and textures. A playful take on people as robots, do we become our mobile phones and devices, do our digital identities go to parties without us?
'Statement' on "A.I" thoughts/ramble as at May 2024...
I know this phenomenon of “a.i” is already here but have no idea about the future of so called “a.i.” generally or in relation to any or all artforms. The optimistic side of me likes to approach any technology with the appropriate mixture of suspicion, curiosity and exploration. From pencil to electricity and code all technologies come from nature, our own nature and the nature that we co-exist with and depend on. So in that sense, the very word artificial when used to refer to something that does ‘not exist naturally’ is meaningless. Perhaps other origins of the word artificial, to do with humans making copies of things is most relevant and the relationship to “artifice” or downright trickery are even more pertinent. “A.I” in my simple understanding is the trick of reproducing for instance images based on billions of images analysed as machine instructions for image content matching words. The ‘fails’, mistakes and emergent or surprising results of this complicated intense processing are more interesting and useful to me than the direct copies of a particular style or object.
Machine learning/trained systems seem a much less exciting marketing term but more accurately describes what I understand of the process for instance behind such tools as ‘ChatGPT’, image and video making tools. Copyright becomes a curious concept in the world of such proliferation of copying and reproducing technologies. Maybe like with technologies such as the pencil, typewriter, camera and gramophone artistry and craft has still grown in value, delicacy and sophistication alongside huge commercial mass production and consumption.
Paul Fletcher 2024
VIDEO HD Stereo Sound. Duration: 1 minutes 3 Seconds
A playful re-reworking of my own work, “Home is inside us” my own machine learning process. Included here as a traditional ‘digital’ animation companion to the “Steady states” a.i experiment. Artificial intelligence: zero % Limited human intelligence 100%. ‘Robots’ made from collage of photos of old electricity meter boxes and cicadas. Animated with ‘hand placed digital keyframes’, digital puppets, recorded movement gestures, sound responsive background patterns and textures. A playful take on people as robots, do we become our mobile phones and devices, do our digital identities go to parties without us?
'Statement' on "A.I" thoughts/ramble as at May 2024...
I know this phenomenon of “a.i” is already here but have no idea about the future of so called “a.i.” generally or in relation to any or all artforms. The optimistic side of me likes to approach any technology with the appropriate mixture of suspicion, curiosity and exploration. From pencil to electricity and code all technologies come from nature, our own nature and the nature that we co-exist with and depend on. So in that sense, the very word artificial when used to refer to something that does ‘not exist naturally’ is meaningless. Perhaps other origins of the word artificial, to do with humans making copies of things is most relevant and the relationship to “artifice” or downright trickery are even more pertinent. “A.I” in my simple understanding is the trick of reproducing for instance images based on billions of images analysed as machine instructions for image content matching words. The ‘fails’, mistakes and emergent or surprising results of this complicated intense processing are more interesting and useful to me than the direct copies of a particular style or object.
Machine learning/trained systems seem a much less exciting marketing term but more accurately describes what I understand of the process for instance behind such tools as ‘ChatGPT’, image and video making tools. Copyright becomes a curious concept in the world of such proliferation of copying and reproducing technologies. Maybe like with technologies such as the pencil, typewriter, camera and gramophone artistry and craft has still grown in value, delicacy and sophistication alongside huge commercial mass production and consumption.