As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, blurring the line between human and machine in the art world, one artist is embracing this moment and the use of machine-learning.
Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung created D.O.U.G.(Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2), a robot they taught to copy brush strokes, so the two can paint together.
Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung created D.O.U.G.(Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2), a robot they taught to copy brush strokes, so the two can paint together.
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00:00So Gwen managed to do something very impressive where she merges the robots with her work.
00:27They don't work separately, they work together.
00:31So it's a teamwork.
00:33They don't work without her, she doesn't work without them.
00:36And she had over 10 years of research how to teach them and to teach them to follow
00:44her brainwaves, her own ideas and her own work.
00:49With Sue Gwen is something very different.
00:51There is another world opening, meaning where the physical art and digital art actually
00:58crosses the paths.
00:59And to be honest, I was very surprised where I come from the collector's world where they
01:07always want a canvas, a sculpture, a very timeless work that they can always look at,
01:15even in 20 years, that it doesn't really lose the value and that impression of the art.
01:20But they loved Sue Gwen.
01:24We have the opportunity to explore ourselves in another form, our collective states.
01:30To learn through the machine as collaborator and the algorithm as creative catalyst.
01:37By building a world through my own tools and my own datasets, I've experienced the beauty
01:42of imperfect systems, the real labor involved in training an AI model on two decades of
01:49my own artwork.
01:50And how firsthand computer vision algorithms shape how we see ourselves and each other.