MACHINE LEARNING FOR SOUND-MAKERS. A WORKSHOP LED BY LUKE FISCHBECK
A short, intensive workshop exploring the current state of machine learning
techniques for working creatively with audio. As a set of approaches for
predictive pattern-matching—classifying, categorizing, translating, generating,
etc—machine learning has been applied to everything from captions to gestures
to maps to MIDI. Audio, with its intensely complex set of perceptual and
contextual resonances, provides a tricky and illuminating challenge for machine
learning.
The focus of this workshop will be on identifying the poetic possibilities
inherent to this set of approaches, with the goal of initiating our own
creative projects. Additionally, attention will be paid to philosophical and
political questions embedded in the idea of ‘creative machine intelligence.’
What does it mean to work collaboratively with computers? Moreover, considering
the resources required to develop this technology, what is lost when a small
set of corporate research groups becomes responsible for the data collected,
the tools developed, and the techniques shared? What strategies of resistance
might be found in exploiting these techniques, data, and concepts for artistic
purposes? What alternative tools are at our disposal for working (playing!)
creatively using machine learning?
We will be following a hands-on approach, using publicly accessible,
state-of-the-art techniques to consider what new critical, conceptual, and
aesthetic strategies are made possible through machine learning. Prior
experience working with digital audio processing will be required, and
experience writing code (python or javascript) helpful (but not required).
Participants will have to bring their own laptop to install various software
used in the workshop.
PRACTICALITITES
February 17.-21. 2020, 10:00 – 17:00
Place: BEK in Bergen, Norway
The workshop have a limited number of places. Applicants are kindly asked to
submit a short bio and motivation for taking the workshop, and if you have
already ongoing projects in the field or ideas for future ones give a short
outline to help us prepare the workshop.
Price
Freelance participants NOK 500.
5000 NOK for all academic employees in 50% positions or more.
Contact us for any questions, and we will help find solutions for your travel
and stay in Bergen.
Register by December 15th via email to: esp...@bek.no
LUKE FISCHBECK
Luke Fischbeck is an artist, composer, and organizer based in Los Angeles; a
PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Media Art and Practice program at the
University of Southern California, researching music, affect, and machine
intelligence; and a contributing member of the collaborative group ‘lucky
dragons’.
The workshop is produced in collaboration with Notam, as part of a workshop
series that we jointly arrange for experienced artists. The workshops will be
held in English, and will be arranged alternately in Oslo and Bergen between
2017 and 2020. There is a limited amount of places and highly qualified
participants will therefore be prioritized. The series is supported by Arts
Council Norway.
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