‘We could view the trees as cracks in glasses. We could adopt that change in perception. The space that exists around you could be solid – and you could be only a hollow in the middle of that solid space’ Trungpa Rinpoche 1974
I work on Arts Council England funded relational biophilic (nature connection) creative health, climate change and place-based commissions. Creating Machine Learning artworks using co-produced artwork datasets and archives :
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The Sign of the Underground was a Salt Road Arts Council England funded socially engaged digital art commission by Jaime Jackson using collaborative drawing, photography and AI.
Jaime asked 200 school children to draw the lines on their hands and imagine them as roots or branches. He created a data set with these images for a Machine Learning generated moving image artwork. He collaborated on the project with Mycelium scientist Justin Stewart from Amsterdam University and the Society for Underground Networks.
Machine Learning images from the create dataset:
Jaime was commissioned by Be Fantastic to produce an AI generated artwork installation (Asthir gehrayee) with a team of artists for a British Council commission for the Future Fantastic AI and Climate change festival in Banglore 2023. I developed an idea with my collaborating artist colleagues to work with plankton, and organised a series of conversations for the team with ocean scientists from the Plymouth Marine Lab and the University of Liverpool.
BeFantastic Within is an online programme as part of FutureFantastic, fostering international collaborations, exploring AI technologies and creating provocative performance pieces amplified with creative AI. Selected participants have the chance to be awarded funding to develop and present the piece to an audience at FutureFantastic, an AI-Art festival in Bengaluru (India) in March 2023.
The BeFantastic Within Fellowship enables artistic development, creative exchange and collaboration between emerging and established visual and performing artists from around the world, focusing on ideas around interconnectedness, climate emergency and the role of art and digital innovation. It seeks to push the boundaries of these new formats of work by bringing together the practitioners at the forefront of this innovation in India and the UK. Asthir gehrayee (Unstable depth)
Asthir gehrayee (Unstable depth) takes the form of an immersive, interactive, audiovisual digital art installation, inspired by the ocean and its more-than-human inhabitants. Using motion capture to detect audience movement, ‘Asthir gehrayee’ will immerse viewers in the beauty of the deep sea, and bring into their consciousness the scope of the threat to our oceans along with the steps that might be taken to counter this threat.