Gray Cake (Ekaterina Pryanichnikova, Alexander Serechenko)
Video «Dreams of the machine» lien vidéo: https://yadi.sk/i/wr0t40J1qP-gxg
Artist’s book «Ten thousand and one nights»Dreams of the machine+EN sub for TV.mp4 — Яндекс.Диск
Neural network algorithms for texts, images, and videos generation
Artists work with the phenomenon of AI and, starting from the concept of human consciousness, they ask the question of the existence of the «algorithmic unconscious». «Dreams of the machine» feature artifacts of neural network algorithms trained to reproduce the experience of human dreaming. Relying on the human experience of dreaming and collecting the repressed material, the algorithm reconstructs it into new poetic forms and images that acquire their own meaning and action. Thanks to illogical patterns of the algorithm, we can get scenarios that expand our view of the possible future. Images that tantalize and promise something that never will and show something that never happened.
The work uses the GPT-2 text generation model, which was trained on the dataset, consisting of 34 thousand dream plots of real people. Generation results of this neural network, which are practically indistinguishable from human ones, serve as the basis and input parameters for another algorithm – a customized combination of VQGAN and CLIP models, used to create images and videos corresponding to the input text.
Voices of scientists from the University of Geneva, in cooperation with whom this project was created: Sophie Schwartz, Alison Montagrin, Lampros Perogamvros, Virginie Sterpenich.
Commissioned by the Embassy of Foreign Artists, Campus Biotech, Flux laboratory, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Far Eastern Federal University.