Duets in Latent Space : Performance lecture by Marlon Barrios Solano
Fri Sep 6, 15:00 - Fri Sep 6, 15:30
UCT Hiddingh Road Campus
ABOUT
“Latent Space” is the unseeable space in which machine learning makes its meaning. Beyond that which we are incapable of visualizing is that which we are incapable of even understanding. - James Bridle
“Duets in Latent Space,” is a live collaboration between the artist — situated before a laptop — and machine learning models and their latent space. Through various forms of input, whether they be movements, sounds, or digital interactions, the AI responds in kind, generating visual, auditory, or textual outputs that are played back in real time.
“Duets in Latent Spaces” is conceived as a lecture-performance interacting with web apps programmed by the artist and powered by AI and Machine Learning, attempting to make tangible the remembered, the affective and the speculative. It combines a series of vignettes, storytelling, interfaces, software, movement scores and re-performances, weaving trajectories of cybernetics, lost ancestors, time travel, queer longing, recursion and migrations with algorithmic playfulness.
https://marlonbarrios.github.io/duets-in-latent-space/
The performance of this piece is partially supported by the Center for Art, Migration and Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida and it was created at Lake Studios Berlin residency (Germany).
The real-time generative AI models are provided by a Fal.ai research grant.