Søndag kveld avsluttet Anja Lauvdal årets Ekko med en helt spesiell konsert i Slettebakken kirke 💙
Et stille og vakkert punktum på festivalen – med Wurlitzer-piano og lys - og videokunst av @silje.lys og @birknyg som fylte hele kirkerommet.
BT sin anmelder kaller konserten «en kjærlighetserklæring til det litt snodige instrumentet» og «en sjelden omsluttende helhetsopplevelse» – og det føltes akkurat sånn.
Takk til Slettebakken kirke som åpner dørene for oss hver år!
Foto: @_miriamlevi_
The result of a two day workshop with @andrebratten at @rimiimir_scenekunst as a hour long voyage through my dealings with artificial intelligence since late 2021. Finally shown in the top floor concert venue at @munchmuseet.no , -the home of the Edvard Munch legacy. The music film “Picture Music” was fished approximately one year ago using the then available tools for ai-assisted animation. The images used and also later generations of imagery has since almost become vintage. An absurd statement when compared to the timeless art of Munch, but these are absurd times. Some newer elements where added and I’m still exploring this ever expanding rabbit hole of Generative Adversarial Networks. The early generations of “ai-art” has some nice glitches and imperfections, - it would be a shame to not appreciate it. AI is now producing more accurate results and rapidly taking over more of what humans do. Can art created by artificial intelligence replace art created by humans? 📹: @martinhorntveth
- Reimagined refracted lasers on a waterfall. «Fossegrimen» was a site specific installation made for @geirangerlys Light art festival. Made with the help of artificial intelligence (stable diffusion) four lasers and one video projector. Photos by Hyke studio and myself.
Part of a commissioned work for the Norwegian advertisement award “Gullbranson”. Jingle for category «best direction”. Made trough GAN algorithms and prompted directions to fit the thematics. Music by Erlend Mokkelbost. #aiart
Part of a commissioned work for the Norwegian advertisement award “Gullbranson”. Jingle for category «best visual effects”. Made trough GAN algorithms and prompted directions to fit the thematics. Music by Erlend Mokkelbost. #aiart
The music film I created for @andrebratten latest album «picture music» is now featured on factmag.com. The film was created between January and June 2022 and uses ai-generated imagery available in new tools at the time. Fantastic new possibilities, made available through open source algorithms like vqgan, disco diffusion and realsrgan opens up for audio visual expressions in a way unlike nothing we’ve seen. Well…* Lately DALL·E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and several other tools has extended the tool box even further. New possibilities are added every day.
-What a time to be alive!
*That said: -It’s important to recognize that these new tools are trained on billions of pictures, made by tallented, real artists; dead and alive, that never used these techniques. The images we see in this new art form would not be possible without the work done by those artists, not to mention the programmers, scientists and researchers that made the softwares.
Hardware and software inventions has opened up new paradigms for creativity many times before but this one is different.
All artists should be recognized for their originality and work, not more, not less. They should strive to create something of their own and receive credit for exactly what they do.
I appreciate the work that @factmag do to bring art forward and feel honored and grateful by the feature.
For this film my contribution was the direction, composition and “prompting” of artistic expressions and imagery I found in the process of studying the nature of these tools, some more distinctive than others. Put together to fit the music.
-I did not paint any of these images.
Please respect art and honor the work that inspire you, and support your favorite artists.
Edited and polished in Adobe After Effects and VDMX.
Made some custom chandeliers, filtered windows a quadruppel projector setup for an event @bergen_kjott the other day. Really happy with how it turned out, and the sunset through the Windows!
