Hey there, AI innovators and future-shapers, Kris Krüg here, reflecting on our last gathering and looking ahead to our next adventure in the Vancouver AI Community Meetup series. We're building something special here, and I'm excited to share the journey with you all.
Our June meetup at Future Proof Creatives studio was a testament to the power of interdisciplinary collaboration. Here's what we explored:
1. Interactive Sound Walks with Ove Holmqvist Ove Holmqvist, the maestro of sound and tech, transported us into a sonic landscape where geospatial interactions met physical computing.
photography by Peter Holst
His app turned our movements into music, crafting an auditory tapestry that was both ethereal and profoundly grounding. With Movesense sensors, the line between the physical and the digital blurred, creating a space where each step became a note in a grand, real-time composition.
photography by Peter Holst
2. Autolume: Post-Photographic Cyborg Art I took the community on a journey through time and tech with Autolume, an AI-powered, post-photographic experiment. Imagine teaching a baby AI brain with 20 years of film portraits and watching it bloom into a digital entity capable of creating new art forms.
photography by Peter Holst
This project, in collaboration with Metacreation Lab for Creative AI at SFU, showcased the beautiful chaos at the intersection of analog nostalgia and AI futurism. By feeding the AI with a vast archive of analog film portraits, Autolume learns to interpret and recreate human faces in entirely new artistic expressions, merging the past’s tactile essence with the future’s digital innovation.
photography by Peter Holst
The demonstration illustrated not just the technical prowess of AI but also its potential to redefine artistic boundaries, creating a unique symbiosis between human creativity and machine learning.
3. Lionel Ringenbach’s CompoVision Lionel Ringenbach introduced us to CompoVision, an installation that doesn’t just see but interprets.