Tiling into AI

Founded in 1983 as Toronto Community-Videotex, InterAccess is a non-profit gallery, educational facility, production studio, and festival dedicated to emerging practices in art and technology.InterAccess’s mission is to expand the cultural significance of art and technology by fostering and supporting the full cycle of art and artistic practice through education, production, and exhibition.InterAccess is a registered Canadian charity. Business #120341193RR0001

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Join us in a freeform pattern-making workshop, creating individual or group patterns. These creations will then be augmented by an AI model.

Patterning is an accessible activity regardless of age and skill that has deep roots across cultures. It is also a way for people to connect in verbal and non-verbal ways - in the moment of the activity but also across geographies and time. Join us in a freeform pattern-making workshop where participants create individual or group patterns using various coloured cut geometric mat board shapes. These creations will be augmented by an AI model which will insert a collaborative buffer to connect our creations and create a cohesive, continuous pattern. To achieve this, participants’ patterns will be photographed, isolated, and sent through Dall-E — or possibly a proprietary AI model — to generate patterning extensions and connections.Workshop Purposes<ol><li>Experiential: practice creative play while having a positive social experience. Each patterning event yields vastly different visuals that reflect the diversity of the participants. It will be exciting to see what will result from this workshop and we look forward to participant input into the process and visual outcomes. </li><li>Research questions: do patterns produced under conditions of item#1 above have properties that reflect those experiences? What will an ML model trained exclusively on such experiences/patterns ‘behave’ like and how can such a collaborative AI be used to connect people?</li></ol>

<h3>Workshop Prerequisites </h3><ul><li>Cellphone with camera (optional)</li></ul>Interested participants without access to this equipment may email education@interaccess.org to inquire about renting equipment provided by InterAccess. Access to equipment is provided on a first-come-first-serve basis and is not guaranteed. Please make sure to prepare and test out this setup well before the workshop. If you run into any issues with installing or using this software, contact education@interaccess.org for troubleshooting advice.

<h3>About the Facilitators</h3>Blaine Campbell is an Alberta-based artist working in photography, sculpture, and video. Campbell’s thematic interests vary widely and have included landscape theory, mediation and artifice, quantum mechanics, and mathematical patterning. A 2007 graduate of Emily Carr University with a BFA in photography, he previously obtained B.Math (UWaterloo) and M.Sc. (UCalgary) degrees in mathematics. In 2015/16 Campbell completed an artist residency at the TRIUMF particle and nuclear physics lab and in 2017 at the Banff Centre. Most recently he presented the immersive sculpture “Transcendence Engine 2021-a” as part of The Works Art &amp; Design Festival. Mohamed Somani is an Ottawa-based artist and co-founder of Mobil Art School in Vancouver (2018) which was founded on the belief of creativity as a fundamental human need and right, and is dedicated to broadening public access to art making through collaborative analog and technological methods and art education.In 2020, Mobil developed a collaborative iOS drawing app called Arpp, inspired by the surrealist drawing game ‘exquisite corpse’. This has led to an exploration of AI between Mobil Art and Blaine Campbell as a collaborative buffer between people and use of AI as a 'random' input into the creative process.

Questions? If you have any questions about the workshop or require additional support, please contact us at education@interaccess.org.

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