Hi <<First Name>>! You've been to one of my Creative AI meetup events and have opted in to receive occasional emails with updates on creative applications of artificial intelligence in art, music, design and beyond. Here is the first one 😀
📝 Industry, Start-up & Product News 📝
The Google I/O conference had a whole host of AI-related announcements as the company shifts from mobile-first to AI-first. These included the release of the Quick,Draw! dataset of 50 million doodling images and NSynth: Sound Maker up on AI experiments.
The audio-based gesture recognition start-up Mogees has raised £1 million seed round to develop new multi-platform hardware and software targeting IoT, gaming, VR, AR, “smart toys” and industrial applications. One of their key products, Mogees Play, lets you turn any object into a musical instrument. Cool, right?
Copenhagen-based Uizard Technologies use AI to turn design mockups into source code. Their pix2code model can generate code targeting three different platforms including android, iOS and web from a single input image with over 77% of accuracy. More here.
🎨 Art News 🎨
Google invited two artists from our community, Jake Elwes and Anna Ridler to exhibit their AI artworks at the Google I/O extended event at Campus London. Some images here, but your best bet is to check out Anna's Fall of the House of Usher animations on her website and see Jake's Latent Spacehere.
The artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents from the SALT Research collections, resulting in an immersive installation Archive Dreaming. Watch it in action here.
The winners of Prix Ars Electronica have been announced. Guess who got an Honourary Mention? Our friend and first meetup speaker Terence Broad (congrats!). By the way, the theme of Ars Electronica Festival this September is artificial intelligence “Das andere Ich / The Other I” – Technology as Antagonist or Alter Ego?"
🚀Opportunities 🚀
QUAD, Derby’s centre for contemporary visual art, are looking for artists using Robotics or AI or exploring the concepts, ethics and issues surrounding these subject areas. They are looking for moving image works, photographs and primarily wall-based artworks (although sculptural/ machine objects will be considered). Deadline for submissions is Friday 2nd June and the exhibition will take place from 1st July - 3rd September 2017. More details here.
I am looking for artists exploring the narratives of AI and the role of AI in truth for a potential exhibition opportunity at a conference. If that's you, email me.
Cordite Poetry Review, an Australian and international journal of poetry review and criticism, is looking for computer-generated prose, code poetry submissions and more for a special issue. Submit by 27 August.
🤖The Meetup 🎨
Our next meetup, part of the London Festival of Architecture, will be on AI & Architecture and will take place on the 21st June at the Digital Catapult. Ali Eslami, AI researcher, will examine the possibilities of using machine learning techniques to generate architectural designs. Daghan Cam, CEO of AI Build, will look at the opportunities of using self-learning robots for 3D printing in architecture and the construction industry. Registrations will open 2 weeks before on 7th June at 10am. Keep up to date by joining the meetup group here.
I'm in the process of programming events for the rest of the year, so please let me know if you have any speakers or topics to recommend.
😃Cool things to do 😃
The inaugural 2-day CogX conference on impact of AI in Industry, Government and Society is taking place on 20th-21st June in London, with a session on News, Media and Entertainment featuring speakers from music AI start-ups Jukedeck and AI Music. The CogX team have offered Creative AI meetup a special 25% discount on tickets. To claim it, select your ticket here and enter the discount code lub4v!p. Be quick though, the code expires end of Thursday 1st June.
Algorave, a combination of "algorithms" and "rave", is back in London on Saturday 3rd June at Archspace. Tickets on sale here for all those who want to dance to some "alien rhythms and freaky visuals" live-coded during the night.
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is the latest exhibition to open at the Barbican on 3rd June featuring the short film Sunspring, entirely written by an AI as well as Terry Broad's Autoencoded Blade Runner.
Thanks for getting this far. Anything I missed? I plan to send this on a fortnightly basis. Drop me a line if you have any writings, projects or events you feel I should include.
