The Art of Artificial Intelligence
We meet the artists working with AI to reimagine the worlds of visual art, music and movies.
This week on the Cultural Frontline we meet the artists working with AI to reimagine the worlds of visual art, music and movies.
Scientist and AI aficionado Janelle Shane sorts AI science fiction from AI science fact and explains how this new technology is being harnessed by artists across the world.
As an AI-generated piece of art goes under the auction hammer at Christie鈥檚 in New York for the first time, we meet two pioneering artists creating surreal visual art in collaboration with machines, Mario Klingemann and Harshit Agrawal. Is this the start of a new era in the art world?
We discover what happened when Iranian composer and electronic musician Ash Koosha made an 鈥淎I singer鈥 that produces surprisingly emotional lyrics.
Plus how is AI changing what we see on the silver screen? The Cultural Frontline鈥檚 Laura Hubber speaks to Kelly Port, part of the team who used innovative machine learning to create the villain Thanos in the blockbuster movie, Avengers: Infinity War.
Presented by Tina Daheley.
Produced by Nancy Bennie, Mugabi Turya, Kirsty McQuire, Shoku Amirani, Laura Hubber and Will Coley.
Image: 79530 Self-Portraits (2018) by artist Mario Klingemann on display at the Gradient Descent exhibition at Nature Morte. Credit: SV Photographic, New Delhi, courtesy of Nature Morte, New Delhi.
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