Michael Tyka | EONS, July 2019
Generative Adversarial Net BigGAN
Bio
Mike became involved in creating sculpture and art in 2009 when he helped design and construct Groovik's Cube, a 35ft tall, functional, multi-player Rubik's cube installed in Reno, Seattle and New York. Since then his artistic work has focused both on traditional sculpture and modern technology, such as 3D printing and artificial neural networks. His sculptures of protein molecules use cast glass and bronze and are based on the exact molecular coordinates of each respective biomolecule, and have been shown around the world from Seattle to Japan.
In 2015 he created some of the first large-scale artworks using neural networks, such as Iterative DeepDream and co-founded the Artists and Machine Intelligence program at Google. In 2017 he collaborated with Refik Anadol to create a pioneering projection installation using Generative Adversarial Networks: "Archive Dreaming". His series "Portraits of Imaginary People" has been shown at ARS Electronica in Linz, Christie's in New York and at the New Museum in Karuizawa, Japan. His kinetic, AI-driven sculpture "Us and Them" was featured at the 2018 Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art and in 2019 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
About
EONS is a short animation, a moving painting, a music video and an experiment in creating narrative using neural networks. EONS was created entirely using artificial neural nets: The Generative Adversarial Net BigGAN (Andrew Brock et al.) was used to create the visuals, while the Music was composed by the Music Transformer neural network (by Anna Huang et al.).
2018 Exhibition History / Projects
2018 BAM! Glasstastic, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, "Harvesting the Sap"
2018 Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, "Us and Them"
2019 Exhibition History / Projects
2019 Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, "Future and the Arts: AI, "Us and Them"
2019 Christie's New York, Art + Tech Summit: AI Revolution, "Portraits of Imaginary People"
2019 Anteism Books, Montreal, LATENT SEE, "Us and Them", "EONS", "Portraits of Imaginary People"
2019 Neurips AI Creativity Workshop, EONS
2019 Split Film Festival 2019, EONS