Portrait Of The Artist As An Algorithm

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In today’s episode I welcome you to the Museum of Non-Human Art, a brand new gallery full of art made entirely by machines, computers, algorithms, robots and other non-human entities. I hope your enjoy your visit! To see pictures of any of the artworks we talked about on this show head to the website! Guests: Elizabeth Stephens, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland Michael Noll, computer artist, professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California Ahmed Elgammel, director of the The Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University Orit Gat, art critic & writer Xiaoyu Weng, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Further Reading: Do Androids Dream of Electric Bananas? Machines in the Garden Automata by Jacquet-Droz The Story of Jacquet-Droz When the Machine Made Art "Incredible Machine" (1968) — main-title animation sequence for award-winning movie by Owen Murphy Productions for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. "Patterns by 7090," by Michael Noll "Computer Generated Ballet" by Michael Noll Human or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition with Lines’ and a Computer–Generated Picture CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks Generating “Art” by Learning About Styles andDeviating from Style Norms Quantifying Creativity in Art NetworksLarge-Scale Classification of Fine-Art Paintings: Learning the Right Metric on the Right Feature A Computer Vision System for Artistic Influence Mining Tales of Our Time Exhibit at the Guggenheim Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: Tales of Our Time Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Want to send a note or idea? Spotted a reference? Email me at info@flashforwardpod.com. Want to donate? Head this way. Can't give money? Leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell a friend about the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.0	Flash Forward is a show about the
0:04.0	A.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:11.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:15.4	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:21.2	We always start with a little field trip to the future to check
0:24.7	out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts
0:29.4	about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:34.4	Got it?
0:35.2	Great.
0:35.9	This episode we're starting in the year 2047. Hello and welcome to the Museum of Non-Human Art.
0:56.0	I'm Magenta and I'll be your guide.
0:59.0	The Museum of Non-human Art was founded just last year in 2046, as a museum dedicated to
1:07.8	showcases the wondrous possibilities that arise when computers, robots, algorithms, and machines of all kinds are
1:17.0	given the freedom to create art.
1:19.8	Here are the Museum of Non-Human Art we celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and
1:26.6	generosity. You'll find the museum organized into four sections. The North Wing is dedicated to art made by and for robots.
1:36.1	Some of you here are humans I see, so please be aware you may not be able to see some of these pieces and be careful to look out for signs so you don't accidentally walk through an artwork.
1:50.0	Look both ways, for example, a piece by the artist Eleanor is a piece based on the
1:56.4	infrared signals that self-driving car systems use to process their visual
2:02.1	input at night.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Flash Forward Presents, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Flash Forward Presents and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.