Blog 02

https://www.memo.tv/works/true-colors/

One of the artists I really enjoyed the work of was Memo Akten, his work with AI intrigued me. The computer could only recognise things that it already knows, one of the demonstrations was a video of a woman moving some keys and headphones around. Next to that video was one that was a record of what the computer could comprehend, in that video appeared flowers and moving water. The interpretation struck a chord because it shows that the computer, although not “feeling” , pieced together beautiful things and saw them as default shapes (probably because they’re less complex than things like faces). I’m not sure how he creates art like this but I assume it’s something along the lines of feeding a computer program a bunch of pictures and then showing it new pictures and watching it try to figure out what it is. I’ve seen other programs that you can put two words into and a program try to create something that fits the two words together. I assume that this is almost like the opposite of this. It’s also kind of interesting that the motivation behind Akten’s projects is to create something but he’s doing it in a second hand way. He creates the thing that then creates the final product, I can appreciate the level of detachment he has from his final product while still being able to orchestrate it.