Creative
Aliens
#001
AI×Creativity
About
With the development of technology and democratization, the boundary
between expression and research has become ambiguous. In the brackish
water area, an unknown expression that has never been seen before is
born. It is sometimes strong, beautiful, and gives a tremendous shaking
to the heart, bringing new perspectives and feelings. “Creative Aliens” is an event that updates creators, artists, and researchers with
ideas, ideas, and ways of making ideas through talks, discussions, and
workshops that change the common sense of the past. The first theme is
“AI”. AI invites people who are doing manufacturing and research that
have never existed before. Please join us.
Speakers
David Ha / hardmaru
Research Scientist
at Google Brain Tokyo
David is a Research Scientist at Google Brain. His research
interests include representation learning, artificial
creativity, and evolutionary computing. Prior to joining
Google, He worked at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director,
where he ran the fixed-income trading business in Japan. He
obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering
Science and Applied Math from the University of
Toronto.
Gene Kogan
Artist / Programmer
Interested in autonomous systems, collective intelligence,
generative art and computer science, Gene Kogan is an artist
and programmer who codes, gives talks, teaches workshops,
writes essays and occasionally curates and organizes. He is
also interested in advancing scientific literacy through
creativity and play, as well as building educational spaces
which are as open and accessible as possible. Currently,
Gene is leading an open project to create an autonomous
artificial artist, compiling a free educational toolkit on
machine learning for art, advising at Runway ML, teaching at
NYU, and is organizing something fun in the desert.
Nao Tokui
CEO of Qosmo / Associate Professor at Keio University /
Dentsu Craft Tokyo, Head of Technology
Born in 1976 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Tokui received
his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, on his researches on
Human-Computer Interaction using Artificial Intelligence
(AI) to enhance human creativity. After pursuing his
research and creative interest at several research
institutes in Japan and Europe, Tokui founded Qosmo in 2009.
With the motto, "Computational Creativity and Beyond," Qosmo
became a unique creative studio focusing on the application
of AI in the creative field. Tokui, himself, has been
exploring the potential expansion of creativity through the
symbiosis between AI and humans. His recent works include a
music video of a song by Brian Eno, using AI. In addition,
Tokui has continued to present live performances titled AI
DJ Project in Japan and overseas. These performances feature
an AI DJ playing alongside a human DJ (Tokui, himself),
taking turns selecting and playing one song at a time. In
April 2019, he started his professorship at Keio University
and founded Computational Creativity Lab to advance his
practices in research and educational environment as
well.
Tom White
Artist / Researcher
Tom White has been working with AI and drawing systems for
25 years. His early work on drawing frameworks at MIT led to
influential toolkits that are still popular today - such as
Processing and openFrameworks. He is a senior lecturer in
computational design at Victoria University of Wellington
School of Design, where he teaching creative coding and
researches creative applications of modern AI techniques.
Tom’s artwork focuses on how machines see the world. Neural
networks use a specially constructed drawing system to
produce abstract ink prints that reveal their visual
concepts. Surprisingly, these prints are recognised not only
by the neural networks that created them, but also
universally across most AI systems.
Schedule
Day 1
Thu, Oct 10, 2019
Talk Session
@dentsu Hall
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Day 2
Fri, Oct 11, 2019
Workshop
We invite Gene Kogan, who teaches at New York University, to
conduct a creative coding workshop using machine learning and
deep learning. This workshop focuses on deep learning art and
design applications, including generation models, real-time
tracking, and interactive features. It will be easy for
beginners to use Runway ML, ml5.js. Please apply by all
means.
@Dentsu Craft Tokyo
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Note
＊ The visuals on this site are also experimenting with AI. The concept
is “reproduction of design”. Based on a simple model that predicts RGB
color values of a specific image from x and y coordinates, a part of the
trained model is intentionally invalidated. Although it is based on the
pattern of the original image, it creates a completely new visual design
like an abstract painting. Input images are undesigned images such as
streets full of billboards and weekly magazines full of letters. An
example of a new design approach by AI and humans.
https://github.com/smurakami/KerasPainter