Autonomous Artificial Artist @ ITP-NYU, Spring 2020

Syllabus        Lectures

06 Apr 2020
Art, autonomy, and AI
Description
  • Intro, Zoom logistics, admin
  • Basic idea of artificial autonomous artist
  • The whole class "in 60 minutes"
13 Apr 2020
Crowd-sourced art & Generative models 1
Description
  • Artificial life and early computational arts
  • The hive mind: crowd-sourced art projects
  • GANs and variational autoencoders
20 Apr 2020
Elements of decentralization
Description
  • Cryptography primer
  • Decentralization
  • Proposals for decentralizing the internet
27 Apr 2020
Decentralized AI 1 & Generative models 2
Description
  • Decentralization of AI
  • Image-to-image generative models
04 May 2019
Decentralized AI 2
Description
  • Federated learning
  • Secure multiparty computation
  • Federated variational autoencoder demo
11 May 2019
The collective imagination
Description
  • Putting the pieces together
  • bb-aaa setup
Art, autonomy, and AI
6 Apr 2020 [slides] [zoom]
  • Intro, Zoom logistics, admin
  • Basic idea of artificial autonomous artist
  • The whole class "in 60 minutes"