The AI generated art has arrived.
In a presentation this week at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (arguably the world’s best institution dedicated to modern and contemporary art), the AI technology that has upended trillion-dollar industries around the world over the past decade will officially be unveiled. will be announced. Foreword.
Created by pioneering artist Refik Anadolu, the museum’s towering Gand Lobby installation uses sophisticated machine learning models to interpret visual and informational data from MoMA’s public collections. increase.
“Now we are in a renaissance,” Anadol said of the presentation Refik Anadol: Unsupervised. “Bringing AI to media completely and fundamentally changes the profession.”
Anadol is a digital media pioneer. Throughout his career, he has been interested in the intersection of art and his AI. Art His first encounter with AI as a tool was at Google. There he used deep learning and his NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to create dynamic digital artwork.
In 2017, he started using StyleGAN, one of the first generative AI tools created at NVIDIA Research. StyleGAN was able to generate incredibly realistic synthetic images of faces.
Anadolu uses tools to explore more abstract images, trains StyleGAN on images of contemporary art rather than images of faces, and uses data streaming from optical, thermal, and acoustic sensors to power AI. I was even more intrigued by the ability to guide synthesis.
Dive deep into MoMA
These ideas led him to an online collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in 2021. This was exhibited by the Feral File, where he used over 138,000 records from the museum’s public archives. The Feral File exhibit has become an online sensation, reimagining art in real time, inspiring a wave of AI-generated art that has gone viral this year through his Instagram, Twitter, Discord, and Reddit social media communities. rice field.
This year, he returned to MoMA to dig even deeper, collaborating again with MoMA curators Michelle Cuo and Paola Antonelli on a new large-scale installation. From November 19, 2023, he will use AI to interpret and transform over 200 years of his art from his MoMA collection in “Refik Anadol: Unsupervised,” which runs until March 5. .
Not only is it the world’s finest collection of contemporary art, including pioneering sculptors, painters and even game designers from the past two centuries, but it also lets you look inside the AI mind and see the results of its algorithmic processing. There is also something to do. Data from MoMA’s collection, ambient sounds, temperature and light, and ‘dreams’,” he said Anadol.
Powering your system is a complete suite of NVIDIA technologies.he depends on NVIDIA DGX Server Powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs to train models in real time.another machine equipped with NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs Transform your model into computer graphics to drive the displays in your exhibit.
“bending data”
“Refik bends the data we normally associate with rational systems into the realm of surrealism and irrationality,” said Michelle Kuo, the museum’s exhibition curator. new york times“His interpretation of the MoMA dataset is essentially a transformation of contemporary art history.”
The installation took place amidst a wave of excitement around generative AI. Generative AI is helping both amateur and professional artists in the middleOpenAI Dal E.When dream studio.
Anadolu’s work intersects with the growing interest in NFT art that rocked the world in 2021, but, like AI-generated art, goes far beyond.
Inspired by cutting-edge research
Anadolu’s work delves deep into MoMA’s archives and cutting-edge AI, relying on a technology developed at NVIDIA Research called StyleGAN. NVIDIA’s vice president of graphics research, David Luebke, sees his StyleGAN2 demo by NVIDIA researcher Janne Hellsten trained in stylized artistic portraits. He said he was first excited by the artistic and creative possibilities of generative AI when he was working on it.
“Suddenly, you can fluidly explore the content and style of generated images and react to environmental effects such as sound and weather,” said Luebke.
NVIDIA Research has been pushing the cutting edge of generative AI since at least 2017, when NVIDIA developed Progressive GANs. It was the first to use AI to synthesize highly realistic, high-resolution images of human faces. The subsequent StyleGAN achieved even higher quality results.
Every year since then, NVIDIA has published a paper that advances its cutting-edge technology. StyleGAN has proven to be a versatile platform, allowing countless other researchers and artists like Anadol to bring their ideas to life, Luebke explained.
Democratizing content creation
More is coming. State-of-the-art generative AI models have demonstrated the ability to generalize beyond a particular subject, such as human faces or images of cats and cars, language models that allow users to specify the desired image in natural language, or restorations, etc. contains other intuitive methods of Luebke explains.
“This is exciting because it democratizes content creation,” said Luebke. “Ultimately, generative AI has the potential to unlock the creativity of everyone, from professional artists like Refik, to hobbyists and casual artists, to school kids,” he said. I’m here.
Anadolu’s work at MoMA offers a glimpse of what is possible. The artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, “Refik Anadol: Unsupervised,” features three of his new digital art by the Los Angeles-based artist, using AI to create a giant 24 x 24 foot digital display. Explore his MoMA collection dynamically. It is both a work of art and a work of architecture.
“AI is often used to classify, process, and generate realistic representations of the world,” said exhibition organizer Michelle Kuo, a leading global art and architecture told the publication Archinect. “Anadolu’s work, by contrast, is prescient. It explores dreams, hallucinations and irrationality, presenting a different understanding of contemporary art and art-making itself.”
Refik Anadol: Unsupervised also hints at how AI will change our future, and Anadol believes it will be better. “This only enhances our imagination,” said Anadolu. “I see this as an extension of our minds.”
For more information, Refik Anadol’s work in NVIDIA’s AI Art Gallery.
