Computational Creativity

Kasper Jordaens - kaotec []<>

who am I

artist architect

researcher engineer

My artistic practice is rooted in the hacker culture where technology is liberated from its intended use and the freedom to operate and use technology for the purpose of new applications is encouraged. Hacking involves disrupting the status quo and challenging artificial limits on technology set by business or political actors. So called hacktivism challenges how society adopts and uses (new) technologies. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous and this impacts how I reflects on my artistic process. AI is no longer just a tool, but also an inspiration and collaborator in a creative process. The age of post-human creativity has begun and I push technology through in his artistic research, installations and livecoding performances all while maintaining the ever so important bond with the human soul and questioning the technology itself.

I build stuff

torreWim Delvoye

I break stuff

latent inversion

data leak

data intersect studies

I make noise

lambdasonic algoraves

Computational Creativity?

red button

the holy grail

Creativity Factory

Andy Warhol - The Factory

behind the red button

tools

so you can work

so you can work harder

Isn't this what AI is supposed to solve

The nine-thousand series
is the most reliable computer ever made.
No nine-thousand computer has ever
made a mistake or distorted information.
We are all,
by any practical definition of the words,
foolproof and incapable of error.

HAL 9000 - Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Oddesey

make no mistake

AI MODELS CANNOT MAKE MISTAKES

humans program mistakes

Tool & Instruments

Tools + Transpiration

=

Instrument

TUNP

Live coding

Computational Creativity System

instrument with Human-Computer interaction
where the computer is given
(semi)-autonomous decision capabilities
and there is a mutual
authorship recognition (authenticity)
allowing the human to be inspired by
and achieve a way to be expressive with
a computational entity

calculator creativity

keep the human in the loop

BOTBOP

botbop

"KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP"
Om muziek te maken met AI zijn we er dus nog niet, maar wij hebben er met botbop wel iets op gevonden… Botbop is een band, de naam komt voort uit “robot bebop”. Opgestart in tijdens corona, als een onderzoek om te kijken of we een computerbandlid zouden kunnen maken vormen om mee samen te spelen kreeg het project een interessante wending toen we uitgenodigd werden om op Sonar in Barcelona te spelen. De vraag was of we een live instrument konden toevoegen. Andrew Claes had al langer een idee op de plank liggen om met strijkers te spelen en de beats van Dago Sondervan en live AI gestuurde compositie van Andrew werden met 8 maten vertraging omgezet in partituren die een strijkkwartet a prima vista interprteerde en speelden. Keep the humans in the loop! Experiment and do stuff that has not been done before