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“Blackberry Winter” is an AI artistic project developed by Christian Mio Loclair. Loclair first trains a computer designer GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) by a curated dataset of visual arts and 120.000 body postures, then GAN uses textures, colors and gradients to create continuous artificial human motions (“dance”).
What inspires me about the project is that, AI is able to synthesize science (how human body coordinates) and arts (creation of elegant movements). Loclair’s creation provides inspiration for choreographers as well as scientists who try to study human motions. To be more effective, the creator can have a larger database of human postures and dancing inspirations, which can help GAN create more sophisticated motions.
Loclair has started to code and to dance since 1992. His long-time observations on the two worlds motivate his ongoing desire to digitize human actions and to humanize digital procedures, which lead to this beautiful AI project.
