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SIGGRAPH Art Paper 2022

My paper Three Stage Drawing Transfer has been published by Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. I presented this at SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver BC as part of the Art Papers program. It explores creative AI, human imagination, and embodied interaction through an interactive drawing performance.

Robert Twomey. 2022. Three Stage Drawing Transfer: Collaborative Drawing Between a Generative Adversarial Network, Co-robotic Arm, and Five-Year-Old Child. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 5, 4, Article 36 (September 2022), 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533614

SIGGRAPH Art Gallery 2022

My project Three Stage Drawing Transfer was selected for the SIGGRAPH 2022 Art Gallery program in Vancouver, BC. August 8-11th, 2022.

I did an interview about the project for the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog https://blog.siggraph.org/2022/07/exploring-collaborative-drawing-and-creative-ai.html/.

I also gave a LABS session, and was on two panels:

AI Radio PLAY at ISEA2022

Together with Ash Smith, Patrick Coleman, and Stephanie Sherman, I will be conducting a day long workshop on AI co-writing with GPT-3, culminating in a live internet radio play for ISEA 2022.

More information here: radio-play.net

June 11, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain

Embodied Code at CHI22

Embodied Coding Environment, showing annotations, game objects, and nodes/edges.

We will be presenting our Embodied Code project at CHI’22 as part of the Interactions program. In both online and in-person formats, we will demo the Embodied Coding Environment, and take participants through a short (5 minute) experience with the embodied coding system.

Stay tuned for more info, and to read our extended abstract: embodiedcode.net

Performance: Artificial Rural Imagination

Carson Center hosts research Flyover Summit Oct. 21-22 | Hixson-Lied  College of Fine and Performing Arts | Nebraska

For the FLYOVER Summit at UNL (Ash Smith and Stephanie Sherman), we produced a speculative machine narrative of the event. We had 11 humans, 1 neural net, and billions of anonymous textual tokens to produce a machine narrative to accompany the talks throughout the day. An AI writer’s room.

The Rural AI took over the Carson Center feed for 9 hours on 10/21. Find our micro-narratives and speculative vignettes between:

Start of event: https://twitter.com/carsoncenterunl/status/1451175473308790784

End of event: https://twitter.com/carsoncenterunl/status/1451302007403266060