October 5th, Stammtisch #54

Nuño
Open call for artists (to perform in Berlin) and hosts to get involved in a new event format. Check out https://niviili.com/
Also shows an audiovisual installation he built for Wilde Möhre festival 2018.
See at http://action-io.com/

Constanze
A Machine Learning project from Facebook research. She demoes story generation on the command line, using pythorch.
https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq

References:

• http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ (reload the page ;-)
• Artist statement generator: http://500letters.org/form_15.php (Abe’s example: http://500letters.org/form_15.php?naam=pazos_solatie_abe)

Raphaël
Describes the Retune 2018 festival from last week: https://retunefestival.de/2018/
Colors X Colors https://vimeo.com/280776424
See also http://retune.de
He shows how he plotted some of his generative shader black and white designs
https://twitter.com/Aesthoplasm/status/924582859339419649

David
Shows an interactive map he worked on during a one-week long hackaton in Finland. It overlays an old map of London over the current map. It allows exploring the publisher’s world interactively with a time line, showing how they reappeared after a large fire that burned most of London. URL?

Also, time-based squatted map of Berlin: http://berlin-besetzt.de/

Meredith
Shows a machine learning tool that converts line sketches to “photographic” cats. URL?
Then https://github.com/NVIDIA/pix2pixHD
He built a scene in Unity to render flat colors that the can be rendered using pix2pixHD to a “photographic (glitchy)” style.

Also check out

• Keijiro Takahashi: https://twitter.com/_kzr/status/1041611079082663937
• Draw a cat (Also shoes): https://github.com/NVIDIA/pix2pixHD/blob/master/imgs/teaser_ours.jpg

Abe & Francesco
LED strips
https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze/