Creative AI Lab

Other

AI and the myths of Creativity by Lev Manovich →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2021

Deep Visual Instruments: Realtime Continuous, Meaningful Human Control over Deep Neural Networks for Creative Expression by Memo Akten →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2021
Goldsmiths University of London

TAGS
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Creative AI, Computational Creativity, Expressive Human Machine Interaction, Visual Instruments, Computer Vision

Tool
Drawing

deepdream.c ↗︎

deepdream.c is an artistic experiment trying to implement Convolutional Neural Network inference and back-propagation using a minimal subset of C89 language and standard library features.

ADDED
May 2021

DEVELOPER
Alexander Mordvintsev

Tool
Audio, Music

Sema, A Playground for Live Coding Music and AI ↗︎

Sema lets you compose and perform music in real time using simple live coding languages. It enables you to customise these languages, create new ones, and infuse your code with bespoke neural networks, which you can build and train using interactive workflows and small data sets. All of this with the convenience of a web-based environment.

ADDED
May 2021

DEVELOPER
University of Sussex EMuTe Lab: Francisco Bernardo, Chris Kiefer, Thor Magnusson

LICENSE
MIT License Copyright 2020

Book

Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property by Martin Zeilinger →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2021
Meson Press

Journal

The Next Biennial Should Be Curated By A Machine by Stages →︎

PUBLISHED
March 2021
Liverpool Biennial 2021

TAGS
Curation

Tool
Static Image

DALL.E ↗︎

DALL.E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 trained to generate images from text descriptions using a dataset of text-image pairs.

ADDED
February 2021

DEVELOPER
OpenAI

LICENSE
Modified MIT License

Interview

Anna Ridler talks about blind spots in information in her data driven projects by Shraddha Nair →︎

PUBLISHED
December 2020
stir world

Paper

Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence by Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group →︎

PUBLISHED
October 2020
The Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

TAGS
Decolonisation

Publication

AI Art Manifesto by Natalia Fuchs, Peter Kirn, Chris Salter, Emilio Vavarella, Moises Horta Valenzuela →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2020
Futurological Congress, Transart Festival 2020

TAGS
Manifesto

Paper

Post-creativity and AI: Reverse-engineering our Conceptual Landscapes of Creativity by Jan Løhmann Stephensen →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2020
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity

Publication

AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams by Joanna Zylinska →︎

PUBLISHED
August 2020
Ppen Humanities Press

Interview

A Different Research Agenda: Julia Kaganskiy Introduces the Creative AI Lab →︎

PUBLISHED
July 2020
Serpentine

TAGS
Eva Jäger, Mercedes Bunz

Interview

Luba Elliott on the Emergence of the Creative AI Field →︎

PUBLISHED
July 2020
Serpentine

TAGS
Eva Jäger, Mercedes Bunz

Tool
Multi-category

RunwayML ↗︎

RunwayML contains a variety of models designed for generating images, text and beyond. It does not require coding skills and costs 0.05 USD per minute for running models on a remote cloud GPU infrastructure.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Runway AI

LICENSE
Terms permit you to use the RunwayML Services for your personal, non-commercial use only

Tool
Static image

VFRAME: Computer Vision Tools For Human Rights Researchers ↗︎

VFRAME is an open-source project that develops customized object detection models, visual search engine tools, and synthetic image datasets for training deep convolutional neural networks.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Adam Harvey

LICENSE
MIT License Copyright 2018 Adam Harvey

Course

Machine Learning for Musicians and Artists by Rebecca Fiebrink →︎

PUBLISHED
July 2020
Goldsmiths University London

TAGS
Free course, Demos

Tool
Audio

Tensorflow WaveNet ↗︎

Tensorflow WaveNet can be used to generate audio and speech. It is free, works in Tensorflow and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
DeepMind

LICENSE
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright 2016 Igor Babuschkin

Tool
Visualisation

Image t-SNE ↗︎

Image t-SNE is a tool for visualising high-dimensional data. It is free and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Tool
Dance and Movement

PoseNet ↗︎

PoseNet is used to estimate either a single pose or multiple poses (in multiple people) in image/video. It is a free Tensorflow implementation and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

Tool
Facial Detection, Recognition and Manipulation

ofxFaceTracker2 ↗︎

ofxFaceTracker2 can be used for face detection, face landmark detection and for head pose estimation. It is an addon for OpenFrameworks, free and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Jonas Jongejan

Tool
Audio

Lyrebird ↗︎

Lyrebird lets you create a voice doublethat sounds like you based on an audio sample. There is also the option to overdub, which replaces recorded phrases with synthesized speech that is tonally blended in with the surrounding audio. Lyrebird is currently in private beta, but is open to hearing about potential interesting use cases.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
Lyrebird (now owned by Descript)

LICENSE
License Grant. Subject to their Terms, Descript grants you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to access and use Descript

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

write-rnn-tensorflow ↗︎

write-rnn-tensorflow can be used for random handwriting generation. It is a free Tensorflow implementation that requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
David Ha

Tool
Dance and Movement

OpenPose ↗︎

OpenPose is a real-time multi-person system to jointly detect human body, hand, facial, and foot keypoints on a single image

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
CMU Perceptual Computing Lab

LICENSE
Updated Caffe version license 1.0.0rc5 to 1.0.0

Tool
Music

Jukebox ↗︎

Jukebox is neural network that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.

ADDED
July 2020

DEVELOPER
OpenAI

LICENSE
Modified MIT License Software Copyright 2020 OpenAI

Tool
Audio

AudioClassifier ↗︎

AudioClassifier can be used to distinguish different sounds from each other, providing the results to other applications over OSC.It is an openFrameworks application, part of the ml4a-ofx collection. It is free and requires basic coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

Handwriting Synthesis ↗︎

Handwriting Synthesis can be used for generating handwriting. It is a free Tensorflow implementation that requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Sean Vasquez

Tool
Audio

Audio t-SNE ↗︎

Audio t-SNE places similar-sounding audio clips near each other and plays them as you hover the mouse over each clip. It is free and requires basic coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Talk

AI as an Act of Thought by Ramon Amaro →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2020
Sonic Acts

Tool
Audio

Audio Style Transfer ↗︎

Audio Style Transfer synthesizes audio by independently manipulating style and content. It is free and available as Tensorflow, Torch and Lasagne implementations. It requires basic coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Dmitry Ulyanov and Vadim Lebedev

Paper

Data and the Task of the Humanities by Leif Weatherby →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2020
The Hedgehog Review

TAGS
Automation, Divination

Tool
Music

CycleGAN-Music-Style-Transfer ↗︎

CycleGAN-Music-Style-Transfer realises music style transfer between different musical domains (classic, jazz,pop). It is a free Tensorflow implementation and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
ETH Zurich

LICENSE
MIT License Copyright 2018 Sumu Zhao

Tool
Music

Nsynth ↗︎

Nsynth can be used to generate sound at the level of individual samples. It provides artists with intuitive control over timbre and dynamics and the ability to explore new sounds. It was trained on a dataset of musical notes. It is free and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Google and DeepMind

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

Convolutional VAE ↗︎

This Convolutional VAE tool demonstrates how to generate images of handwritten digits by training a Variational Autoencoder. It is free, runs as a Colab notebook and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

Four Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network ↗︎

This is a series of web-based experiments in handwriting with a neural network such as generating new strokes based on your handwriting input. It is free and requires no coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

Tool
Drawing

sketchRNN demo ↗︎

This is an interactive web experiment that lets you draw together with a recurrent neural network (sketch-rnn). It is free, web-based and requires no coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

LICENSE
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

Digit Fantasies by a Deep Generative Model ↗︎

This is a web-based demo that generates digits. It is free and requires no coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Durk Kingma

Paper

Excavating AI by Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2020
The AI Now Institute, NYU

TAGS
Data, Automation

Tool
Handwriting and Digits

RNN Handwriting Generation Demo ↗︎

This is a web-based demo of generating handwriting using RNN. It is free and requires no coding skills.

ADDED
June 2020

DEVELOPER
Alex Graves

Course

ml4a (Machine Learning for Artists) Classes by Casey Reas →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2020
Casey Reas, New York University

TAGS
Slides, Demos

Tool
Music

MuseNet ↗︎

MuseNet can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. The dataset comes from a variety of sources including ClassicalArchives, BitMidi and MAESTRO. It is free and the web-based version does not require coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
OpenAI

LICENSE
For use of outputs created by MuseNet, please cite this blog post as

Podcast

Interdependence 4 - Jesse Engel (Google Magenta) by Holly Herndon, Matt Dryherst →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2020
Interdependance

TAGS
Jesse Engel

Tool
Text

Char-rnn-tensorflow ↗︎

Charr-rnn-tensorflow is a character-level language model in Python using Tensorflow. It is free and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Sherjil Ozair

LICENSE
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2015 Sherjil Ozair

Tool
Text

textgenrnn ↗︎

Textgenrnn allows you to easily train your own text-generating neural network of any size and complexity on any text dataset with a few lines of code, or quickly train on a text using a pretrained modeI. It is is a Python 3 module on top of Keras/TensorFlow. It is free and requires at

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Max Woolf

LICENSE
MIT License Copyright 2017-2020 Max Woolf

Tool
Text

GPT-2 ↗︎

GPT-2 is a transformer-based language model. It was trained on WebText, a dataset consisting of the text contents of 45 million links posted by users of the ‘Reddit’ social network. It is free and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
OpenAI

LICENSE
Modified MIT License Software Copyright 2019 OpenAI

Tool
Dance and Movement

Everybody Dance Now ↗︎

Everybody Dance Now enables motion transfer. Givena source video of a person dancing,it can transfer that performance to a novel target. It is free and requires advanced coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
UC Berkeley

Tool
Music

Folk-rnn ↗︎

Folk-rnn enables you to generate folk music. It is free. There is a web-based version and also a code repository.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Bob Sturm

LICENSE
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2015 Bob L. Sturm, Jõao Felipe Santos, Iryna Korshunova

Tool
Drawing

sketchRNN ↗︎

Sketch-rnn can produce sketches of common objects. It has been originally trained on the QuickDraw dataset, which contains rough human-drawn images representing hundreds of classes. It is free and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

LICENSE
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Tool
Drawing

DoodleClassifier ↗︎

DoodleClassifier enables you to train a classifier to accurately recognise drawings from a camera. It is an openFrameworks application, part of the ml4a-ofx collection. It is free and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Tool
Music

Magenta Studio ↗︎

Magenta Studio is a collection of plugins for music generation with MIDI Files. It includes 5 tools: Continue, Groove, Generate, Drumify, and Interpolate. It is free and available for Windows, MacOS and as an Ableton plugin. It does not require coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

LICENSE
Copyright 2016 The Magenta Team. All rights reserved.

Tool
Gesture recognition

Gesture Recognition Toolkit ↗︎

Gesture Recognition Toolkit is designed for real-time gesture recognition. It is a free, cross-platform, open-source, C++ machine learning library. It requires advanced coding skills.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Nick Gillian

Podcast

Sensilab Creative AI Podcast: Luba Elliott by Jon McCormack, Nina Rajcic →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2020
SensiLab, Monash University in Melbourne

Tool
Dance and Movement

Beyond Imitation ↗︎

Beyond Imitation is a set of open-source tools for the research of experimental dance. It is free and has examples that you can play with in browser and some where coding skills are required.

ADDED
May 2020

DEVELOPER
Yale University

Paper

The Nooscope by Matteo Pasquinelli, Vladan Joler →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2020
KIM HfG Karlsruhe and Share Lab

TAGS
Jon Beller, Kate Crawford, Dubravko Ćulibrk

Diagram

The Nooscope by Matteo Pasquinelli, Vladan Joler →︎

PUBLISHED
May 2020
KIM HfG Karlsruhe and Share Lab

TAGS
Jon Beller, Kate Crawford, Dubravko Ćulibrk

Interview

Jenna Sutela: Soul, meat and pattern by Gary Zhexi Zhang →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2020
Sleek Magazine

Podcast

Art and AI with Eva Jäger and Mercedes Bunz by Ben Byford →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2020
The Machine Ethics Podcast

Tool
Drawing

Autodraw ↗︎

AutoDraw converts your sketches into professional drawings. It is free, web-based and requires no coding skills.

ADDED
April 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

LICENSE
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Paper

Designing and Evaluating the Usability of a Machine Learning API for Rapid Prototyping Music Technology by Francisco Bernardo, Michael Zbyszyński, Mick Grierson, Rebecca Fiebrink →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2020
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Tool
Facial Detection, Recognition and Manipulation

FaceSwap ↗︎

FaceSwap recognises and swaps faces in pictures and video. It is a free, powered by Tensorflow, Keras and Python and will run on Windows, macOS and Linux. It requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
April 2020

DEVELOPER
deepfakes

LICENSE
GNU General Public License Version 3, 29 June 2007

Paper

Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art by Aaron Hetzmann →︎

PUBLISHED
March 2020

Tool
Multi-category

Ml4a ↗︎

Ml4a is a set of guides and resources designed to enable artists to work with a variety of machine learning techniques. It is free and requires a willingness to learn some coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Tool
Multi-category

Ml4a-ofx ↗︎

Ml4a-ofx is a collection of real-time interactive applications and associated scripts for working with machine learning. It is free, requires openFrameworks and intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Tool
Multi-category

Wekinator v2.1.0.4 ↗︎

The Wekinator allows users to build new interactive systems by demonstrating human actions and computer responses. It is free and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Rebecca Fiebrink

LICENSE
GNU General Public License

Tool
Multi-category

Ml5.js ↗︎

Ml5.js is a set of machine learning tools for the web. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies. It is free and requires basic coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Ml5.js

LICENSE
MIT License

Tool
Static Image

Deep Dream ↗︎

DeepDream can be used to change the aesthetic of an image, creating a multicoloured hallucinogenic appearance by using a neural network to find and enhance patterns in images. It was originally trained on the ImageNet dataset. It is free, available in Colab and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Google

LICENSE
CC 3.0 This means that you can use it commercially as long as you attribute the technology

Tool
Static Image

Deep Dream Generator ↗︎

DeepDreamGenerator can apply the DeepDream aesthetic to an image or apply another artistic style to it. It is a free website and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Small team of enthusiasts

LICENSE
CC 3.0 This means that you can use it commerically as long as you attribute the technology

Tool
Static Image

Neural-style ↗︎

Neural-style combines the content of one image with the style of another. It is free and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Justin Johnson

LICENSE
MIT License

Tool
Static Image

DeepArt ↗︎

DeepArt changes an image into the style of an artist. It is a free website and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Bethge Lab

LICENSE
MIT License

Tool
Static Image

GauGAN ↗︎

GauGAN, named after post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, creates photorealistic images from segmentation maps. It is free, web-based and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
NVIDIA

LICENSE
Licensed under public domain

Tool
Static Image

SPADE ↗︎

SPADE creates photorealistic images from segmentation maps. There are several free implementations available including in PyTorch and Tensorflow. It requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
NVIDIA

LICENSE
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Tool
Static Image

CycleGAN ↗︎

CycleGAN is used for image-to-image translation. It can generate photos from paintings, turn horses into zebras, perform style transfer and more. It is free and there is a variety of PyTorch, Tensorflow and other implementations available, most requiring at least basic coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
UC Berkeley

LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2017, Jun-Yan Zhu and Taesung Park All rights reserved

Tool
Static Image

Pix2pix ↗︎

Pix2pix is used for image translation e.g. synthesizing photos from label maps, reconstructing objects from edge maps, and colorizing images.There are free implementations in Torch, Tensorflow and others, most requiring at least basic coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
UC Berkeley

LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2016, Phillip Isola and Jun-Yan Zhu All rights reserved

Tool
Static Image

Pix2pix simple demo ↗︎

This is a simple implementation of the pix2pix paper on the browser using TensorFlow.js. It is free and does not require any coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Zaid Alyafeai

Tool
Static Image

DCGAN ↗︎

DCGAN is an image generation model. It is a free Tensorflow implementation and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
OpenAI /indico

LICENSE
MIT License

Tool
Static Image

Artbreeder ↗︎

Artbreeder is a tool for collaborative creation based on mixing images together. It is based on the BigGAN model. It is a free website and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Joel Simon

LICENSE
CC0 license. This releases any image you create on Artbreeder into the public domain.

Tool
Static Image

BigGAN ↗︎

BigGAN generates high quality photorealistic images. It was originally trained on the ImageNet dataset. It is a free PyTorch implementation and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Andrew Brock/DeepMind

LICENSE
MIT License Copyright 2019 Andy Brock

Tool
Static Image

StyleGAN2 ↗︎

StyleGAN2 is a state of the art image generation model used to create photorealistic images with minimal technological artifacts. This is a Tensorflow implementation and requires advanced coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
NVIDIA

LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2019, NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. Nvidia Source Code License-NC

Tool
Moving image

Vid2Vid ↗︎

Vid2vid enables high-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation. It can be used for turning semantic label maps into photo-realistic videos, synthesizing people talking from edge maps, or generating human motions from poses. This is a free PyTorch implementation that requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Nvidia

LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2017 NVIDIA Corporation. Ting-Chun Wang, Ming-Yu Liu, Jun-Yan Zhu. All rights reserved. Licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

Tool
Moving image

Few-shot vid2vid ↗︎

Few shot vid2vid photorealistic video-to-video translation. It can be used for generating human motions from poses, synthesizing people talking from edge maps, or turning semantic label maps into photo-realistic videos. This is a free PyTorch implementation that requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Nvidia

LICENSE
Nvidia Source Code License (1-Way Commercial) – NVIDIA CONFIDENTIAL

Tool
Moving image

Realistic-Neural-Talking-Head-Models ↗︎

Realistic-Neural-Talking-Head-Models is able to generate a moving face based a single image. This is a free implementation and requires advanced coding skills.

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Vincent Thévenin

LICENSE
GNU General Public License

Tool
Text

Torch-rnn ↗︎

Torch-rnn is a character-level language model in Python using Torch. It is free and requires at least basic coding skills

ADDED
March 2020

DEVELOPER
Justin Johnson

Tool
Emotional Recognition

iMotions ↗︎

iMotions integrates various sensor technologies to track different aspects of human responses to stimuli in many kinds of environments. Pricing on request.

ADDED
November 2019

DEVELOPER
iMotions

Experiment

The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine by UBERMORGEN, Leonardo Impett, Joasia Krysa →︎

PUBLISHED
November 2019
Artport

TAGS
Liverpool Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art

Essay

Close to the Metal by Emma R. Norton →︎

PUBLISHED
October 2019
Real Life Mag

Essay

The Calculation of Meaning: on the Misunderstanding of New Artificial Intelligence as Culture by Mercedes Bunz →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2019
Culture, Theory and Critique

Essay

Entangled Realities by Anna Ridler →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2019
DAMN Magazine

TAGS
HeK Basel

Publication

Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks by Casey Reas →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2019
Anteism Books

TAGS
Nora Khan

Interview

Cybernetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Philosopher Yuk Hui by Geert Lovink →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2019
e-flux

TAGS
Geert Lovink

Essay

Spectacular Machinery and Encrypted Spectatorship by Daniel Chavez Heras →︎

PUBLISHED
August 2019
A Peer-Reviewed Journal About (Machine Feeling)

TAGS
Machine Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Magic

Essays

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: What Artists Can Teach Us About the Ethics of Data Practice by Kate Crawford and Luke Stark →︎

PUBLISHED
August 2019
Surveillance and Society 17 (3/4)

Interview

Marcus Du Sautoy and Hans Ulrich Obrist on 'The Creativity Code' →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2019

TAGS
Marcus Du Sautoy, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Essay

Commodities Leap the Species Barrier by Mark Fisher, Suzanne Livingston →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2019
Dazed

TAGS
CCRU, AI: More than Human, the Barbican

Tool
Gesture recognition

ofGVF ↗︎

ofGVF enables realtime gesture recognition and variation tracking. It is free, available for MasOX or as an openFrameworks add-on and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2019

DEVELOPER
Baptiste Caramiaux

LICENSE
GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3, 29 June 2007

Essay

Failing to Distinguish between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky by James Bridle →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2019
e-flux

Essay

Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computations of Space by Matteo Pasquinelli →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2019
e-flux

Tool
Facial Detection, Recognition and Manipulation

OpenFace ↗︎

OpenFace is a facial behavior analysis toolkit including facial landmark detection, head pose estimation, facial action unit recognition, and eye-gaze estimation. It is free, available for Windows, Ubuntu and Mac and requires at least intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2019

DEVELOPER
CMU MultiComp Lab

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

ConvnetClassifier ↗︎

ConvnetClassifier enables you to train a classifier to recognize any objects, persons and other visuals you show it via your webcam. It is an openFrameworks application, part of the ml4a-ofx collection. It is free and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
May 2019

DEVELOPER
Ml4a

LICENSE
GNU General Public License v2.0

Publication

Hito Steyerl: Power Plants →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2019
Actual Reality, Artificial Stupidity

TAGS
Actual Reality, Artificial Stupidity

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

YOLO: Real-time-object-detection ↗︎

YOLO is a system of detecting objects in real-time. It is free, requires Darknet and intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
March 2019

DEVELOPER
Joseph Redmon

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

Image Classifier ↗︎

This tool classifies an image using a pre-trained model. The model was trained on ImageNet. It is free, web-based and requires basic coding skills.

ADDED
February 2019

DEVELOPER
Ml5.js

LICENSE
MIT License

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

Teachable Machine ↗︎

Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that lets you train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds, & poses. It is free and does not require coding skills.

ADDED
February 2019

DEVELOPER
Google

Tool
Emotional Recognition

FaceReader ↗︎

FaceReader recognises specific properties in facial images, including the six basic or universal expressions as well as a 'neutral' state and 'contempt'. Pricing on request.

ADDED
February 2019

DEVELOPER
Noldus

Paper

The Alien Subject of AI by Luciana Parisi →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2019
Goldsmith's University of London

TAGS
Subjectivity

Publication

The Metainterface by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Soren Bro Pold →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2019
MIT Press

Publication

Communication by Mercedes Bunz, Finn Brunton, Paula Bialski →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2019
University of Minnesota Press, Meson Press

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

DenseCap ↗︎

DenseCap detects objects in images and describes them in natural language. It is a free Torch implementation and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
November 2018

DEVELOPER
Stanford

Interview

James Bridle and Ben Vickers on 'The New Dark Age' →︎

PUBLISHED
July 2018
Serpentine

Interview

Ian Cheng in conversation with Nora Khan and Ben Vickers →︎

PUBLISHED
March 2018
Serpentine

Paper

Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification by Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru →︎

PUBLISHED
February 2018
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

TAGS
Algorithmic Justice League, Coded gaze

Talk

The Gender Shades Project by Algorithmic Justice League, Joy Buolamwini →︎

PUBLISHED
February 2018
MIT Media Lab

TAGS
Algorithmic Justice League, Coded gaze

Paper

Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo As An Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data and Planetary Resources by Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2018
The AI Now Institute, NYU and Share Lab

TAGS
Joana Moll, Meredith Whittaker, Alex Campolo

Diagram

Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo As An Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data and Planetary Resources by Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2018
The AI Now Institute, NYU and Share Lab

TAGS
Joana Moll, Meredith Whittaker, Alex Campolo

Interview

GUEST, GHOST, HOST MACHINE!: Kenric McDowell and Jason Louv →︎

PUBLISHED
October 2017
Serpentine

Talk

GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Bubble Vision by Hito Steyerl →︎

PUBLISHED
October 2017
Serpentine

Interview

Ian Cheng and Richard Evans →︎

PUBLISHED
September 2017
The Sims

TAGS
Ian Cheng, Richard Evans

Tool
Object Detection, Recognition and Classification

Mask R-CNN ↗︎

Mask R-CNN can separate different objects in an image or a video. It gives you the object bounding boxes, classes and masks. It is a free Tensorflow implementation and requires intermediate coding skills.

ADDED
June 2017

DEVELOPER
Matterport

Essay

Collaborating with Intelligent Machines by Lucy Sollitt →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2017
British Council Creative Economy

TAGS
Art-making

Essay

Machine Learning in Practice by James Bridle →︎

PUBLISHED
April 2017
British Council Creative Economy

TAGS
Art-making

Essay

Red Stack by Tizziana Terranova →︎

PUBLISHED
March 2014
Euro Nomade

Paper

Computational Creativity: The Final Frontier? by Simon Colton and Geraint A. Wiggins →︎

PUBLISHED
June 2012
ECAI 2012: 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Diagrams, Paintings

Hexen 2.0 by Susan Treister →︎

PUBLISHED
January 2009

Essay

Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI by Philip Agre →︎

PUBLISHED
January 1997
University of California, Los Angeles

Tool
Facial Detection, Recognition and Manipulation

DeepFaceLab ↗︎

DeepFaceLab allows you to create deepfakes by replacing the face and changing political speech. It is free and there are releases for Windows, Linux and Google Colab. It requires at least intermediate coding skills.

DEVELOPER
iperov

LICENSE
GNU General Public License Version 3, 29 June 2007

Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography by Kite →︎

TAGS
Indigenous AI, Non-human Intelligence

Interview

Reengineering Philosophy by Reza Negarestani and Robin Mackay →︎

Courses

Curriculum/Machine Listening by Joel Stern et al →︎

Datasets

The GAN Zoo by Avinash Hindupur →︎

Tool
Text

script_buddy_v2 ↗︎