Category: Athena Dataset

  • Unusual Partnerships Between Humans and Machines

    Unusual Partnerships Between Humans and Machines

    Aberrant Creativity is an international, juried exhibition exploring the boundaries between our machines and ourselves. It is an opportunity for artists to challenge AI, to seduce AI into creative partnership, or lead it astray into play and joy.

  • Navigating Latent Space

    Navigating Latent Space

    Here’s a look at latent space mapping and discovery with the Athena Dataset; we experienced this mathematical space as a new physical world, as new terrain and territory.

  • Transfer Learning

    Transfer Learning

    This print illustrates the process of transfer learning, a machine learning technique when a model trained on one task is reused –usually to save time and computing energy– for another related task. A series of uncanny images reveals a machine learning model’s transition from a training dataset to a primary one.

  • Tiny Datasets

    Tiny Datasets

    The intimacy of a tiny dataset approach is in contrast with big data and its tendency to produce homogenized results; the Tiny Dataset series celebrates its local, limited, situated, chaotic, and precise results in alliance with Donna Haraway’s critique of “The God Trick.” 

  • When Artistic Authorship Meets Scientific Bias

    When Artistic Authorship Meets Scientific Bias

    “Team Picks” contrasts desirable artistic authorship and undesirable scientific bias. It confronts the destiny of any new technology – that it will eventually become an old, discarded one.

  • Datasets = Artistic Material In early 2020, before the widespread adoption of large language models like ChatGPT and text-to-image generators like Midjourney, I founded the UVM Art and AI Research Group, and I became one of the only faculty from the arts and humanities working in AI at my university. Initially, I was interested in…

  • What inspired the Tiny Dataset Project

    What inspired the Tiny Dataset Project

    In this instance, the genetic algorithm pulled from the octagon and triangle parts of all 500+ Dancing Stars.

  • The Athena Dataset

    The Athena Dataset

    The Athena Dataset is a series of remixes, iterations, constructions, and deconstructions.

  • Making (And Giving Away) Tiny Prints of the Athena Dataset

    Making (And Giving Away) Tiny Prints of the Athena Dataset

    Below are notes on how the Athena Dataset was pictured using a mini 3D printed printing press. Invoices for materials are shared for those interested in working with the press. Making mini prints with this 3d-printed printing press from Open Press. Printed in ABS. Tools used to make these original monotypes include a 3d printer,…

  • Making Liquid Architectures with the Athena Dataset

    Making Liquid Architectures with the Athena Dataset

    Here’s a video made by the student employees in the UVM FabLab; it shows the work they contributed to fabricating the sculptures in the exhibition, Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories.

  • Installation Shots From Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    Installation Shots From Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    For the gallery of images follow this link. There are so many people to thank for the great success of the first showing of Liquid Architectures. I’ll highlight the program here but also want to thank University Communications and particularly Bailey Beltramo, Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist, and Josh Defibaugh for exhibition documentation.