QUANTUM FRAME
LITTLE SOUND MACHINES
LITTLE SOUND MACHINES
2019 -
2018
2018
The Quantum Frame is a mechanical installation that speculates on the future of quantum computing and what that may hold for machine intelligence and consciousness. The installation takes the form of the present day quantum computer, with a tubular central chamber, where machine learning data drives the mechanical movements of an electromagnetic structure, breathing life into the metallic framework, a ghost in the machine.
The current version of the frame is self-generative. But the artist hopes that once time-sharing of the quantum computer is open to the general public, that the installation may be able to talk with the quantum machine directly via data transfer.
This piece is currently on-going. Magnetic field experimentation and research with ferrofluid are currently in--progress.
The Little Sound Machines is a sound installation consisting of a series of both mechanical and digital machines that are connected to an AI network. Three AIs form the central brain of the network. Through learning from and influencing each other, the AIs construct the musical phrases that are then played out through a series of sound-generating machines. The music generated by the AI is also presented on a series of television screens that visualizes both the AI data and audio, as well as machine logic and behavior to the audience.
This piece proposes a new mode of music creation in the age of intelligent machine. Through experimentation, the artist presents an exploration of new musical interfaces that erases the composer from the equation, to present a purely machine-made performance.
The Little Sound Machines are made from found objects, up-cycled and spare parts.
The Little Sound Machines is a sound installation consisting of a series of both mechanical and digital machines that are connected to an AI network. Three AIs form the central brain of the network. Through learning from and influencing each other, the AIs construct the musical phrases that are then played out through a series of sound-generating machines. The music generated by the AI is also presented on a series of television screens that visualizes both the AI data and audio, as well as machine logic and behavior to the audience.
This piece proposes a new mode of music creation in the age of intelligent machine. Through experimentation, the artist presents an exploration of new musical interfaces that erases the composer from the equation, to present a purely machine-made performance.
The Little Sound Machines are made from found objects, up-cycled and spare parts.
LITTLE SOUND MACHINES
2018
The Little Sound Machines is a sound installation consisting of a series of both mechanical and digital machines that are connected to an AI network. Three AIs form the central brain of the network. Through learning from and influencing each other, the AIs construct the musical phrases that are then played out through a series of sound-generating machines. The music generated by the AI is also presented on a series of television screens that visualizes both the AI data and audio, as well as machine logic and behavior to the audience.
This piece proposes a new mode of music creation in the age of intelligent machine. Through experimentation, the artist presents an exploration of new musical interfaces that erases the composer from the equation, to present a purely machine-made performance.
The Little Sound Machines are made from found objects, up-cycled and spare parts.
PROBE I, Averso Specillo Di Ducendum
2019
The PROBE I or VERSE SPECILLO DI DUCENDUM, is the first of a series of investigations on the speculative future of space exploration, colonization and discovery through the employment of post-planetary machine life.
PROBE I, is an AI-driven interactive mechanical sculpture that presents a version of the artist’s imagination of post-planetary machine life. Inspired by the Panspermia hypotheses (the theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment), the installation speculates on a future where conscious machines can bare the trials of space travel to investigate hostile environments of terrestrial planets. The piece takes on the perspective of alien machine life forms as they observe, document, and analyze the strange phenomenons of life on earth.
The installation tracks human and object data in the immediate space around it, including presence and movement, and feeds this data back into a machine learning program framework developed by the artist that analyzes and stores said data into a database.
This database can then potentially be used by future artists to develop data-driven work, where art generates new art, much in tune with the panspermia perspective of life regeneration.
This work was commissioned and collected by UNArt Center in Shanghai, China in 2019.
Images of the life size Probe 001 at the UNArt Center, Shanghai, China. 2019.
Machine generated heat
map displayed here in
this strip of flex LED
that encompasses the
installation.
Video of machine learning generated heat map based on data collected of Probe surroundings.
This heat map is displayed on the flex LED interface at the middle section of the installation.
3D models of the internal workings of PROBE 001. 2019.
The probe was designed to be life size so that the installation can easily capture the visitors who interact with, as shown in this diagram. The final installation stands at a little over 2m tall.
Archival footage taken of early tests with the machine
learning module on the streets of Berlin.