AI Art Today Presents: Exclusive Interview with Ivona Tau and Kate Vass, 22nd of June
We're happy to share that on the 22nd of June, Kate Vass and acclaimed digital artist Ivona Tau will be special guests on the Twitter series "AI Art Today". "AI Art Today" brings together innovative and talented digital artists, innovative entrepreneurs, forward-thinking theorists, and influential thought leaders for insightful interviews, where they discuss their creative processes, challenges, and the tools they utilize to transform their visions into reality. This exclusive episode will focus on 'Machine-Hearted', the 100 iterations by Ivona Tau, featured as a new on-chain long-form drop at Kate Vass Galerie's digital extension, K011, using OKAI technology.
“Machine-Hearted” is a complex umbrella of what feels intuitive to humans yet is challenging to interpret or analyze for machines and algorithms. In scientific research, there are usually only seven emotions (happy, sad, angry, neutral, scared ...). Still, it’s difficult for us to imagine feeling only one kind of emotion with our entire essence. What we mostly experience is an unexpected, conflicting combination of many elements. Emotion, the most primitive part of human essence, is also surprisingly difficult to analyze for machines. The AI systems still struggle with emotion classification even though they have established ground-breaking success elsewhere.
This project is an artist’s attempt to explore the large AI model’s strengths and shortcomings in expressing complex human emotions in visual form. The data it was trained on has many biases and stereotyped emotional expressions, but can it also capture some more nuanced human feelings? Or is our emotion reflected in the stone-cold interpretation of the machine? And our mind becomes the medium for the sentiment to materialize.
Finally, the works are about the dissonance we might feel when reality does not conform to our expectations when it conflicts with our emotions. Can emotion ever be Artificial?
Ivona Tau hails from Vilnius, Lithuania, and works with neural networks and code as a medium in experimental photography and motion painting. She has dedicated her career to evoking emotions through artificially intelligent tools. By transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through generative neural networks (GAN), she creates universally relatable memories.
With 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research, Tau stands at the intersection of arts and technology. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE, CAFA, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, Bitforms New York, Venus Over Manhattan, The House of Fine Art, Bright Moments Berlin, and Sotheby’s New York. Her groundbreaking contributions to AI and digital art have earned her prestigious accolades, such as the Digital Ars 2020 award for AI-created art and the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021. Furthermore, she was elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation.
Beyond her art, Tau contributes to the research community, holding a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology and publishing multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.
The exclusive interview will provide a deep dive into her concept behind "Machine-Hearted," which launched on the 17th of June at 0kai.k011.com
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to learn more about Ivona Tau's fascinating new project and hear insights from Kate Vass herself. Join us for this discussion on the 22nd of June.
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