DeepDream: The art of neural networks

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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Date: Feburary 26th, 2016
Link: https://grayarea.org/event/deepdream-the-art-of-neural-networks/
Link: https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/02/exploring-intersection-of-art-and.html
Link: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/26/you-can-visit-an-art-exhibit-created-with-neural-networks-in-san-francisco-this-weekend/
Link: https://medium.com/truly-yours/the-future-of-art-deep-dreams-ai-and-ascribe-3e6b7af1087
Link: https://www.theverge.com/google/2016/3/1/11140374/google-neural-networks-deepdream-art-exhibition-san-francisco
Link: https://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-artificial-intelligence-gets-first-art-show/
Link: https://www.recode.net/2016/2/27/11588302/googles-tripply-ai-neural-nets-put-on-an-art-show
Link: https://news.artnet.com/market/google-inceptionism-art-sells-big-439352
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-to-auction-trippy-artwork-made-by-ai-2016-2
Link: http://fortune.com/2016/03/01/google-deepdream-art/
Link: https://news.artnet.com/opinion/gray-market-obvious-portrait-1381798
Gallery: Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

Description

The art works in this exhibition are made using artificial neural networks (NN). NNs are a biologically inspired form of computing which, unlike classical computer algorithms, aren’t programmed directly by human operators but instead learn from large amount of example data. The networks used in this work are trained with natural images from the environment and learn to distinguish objects and parse them into high level features. Their usual application is that of image classification or object recognition.

Once trained, these networks can then also be used to generate new imagery, essentially “imagining” images based on the learned rules and associations.