#artificialdance

Blackberry Winter

I see blackberry winter’s here that very special time of year when thorny vine’s small pure white bloom announces colder weather’s doom.

"We investigate the possibilities to identify motion as a continuous walk in a latent space of situations. Blackberry Winter is a triptychon of artificial human motion in asymmetry. We developed three different choreographies of human bodies and their ongoing neural relationship in reference to each other, using our custom machine learning solution to weave spatial information into contemporary GAN technology."

Christian “Mio” Loclair is a new media artist and a choreographer based in Berlin, Germany. Through his artwork Blackberry Winter he is fulfilling his lifelong dream to generate dance like motion and choreography. Having a passion for both coding and dancing, he is trying to visualize their interplay by compressing organic observations into code in order to "digitize human actions and to humanize digital procedures". For the needs of the project along with his team they developed a custom Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) pipeline called RayGan in order to teach it a possible space of human poses. The network was trained with a curated dataset of visual artists. The training data was generated by 120.000 postures of human bodies but it was never introduced to a sequence of movements or velocity. Their custom designed GAN has also generated all the textures, colors and gradients of the project.