The Inspiration Machine

Author : Eitan Y. Wilf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828328
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inspiration Machine written by Eitan Y. Wilf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society. In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations of human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. Rather, they approach them as creative partners, delegating to them different degrees of agentive control and artistic decision-making in the hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding their own creative horizons. The algorithms these artists develop and use, however, remain rooted in and haunted by the specific social predicaments and human shortfalls that they were intended to overcome. Experiments in the digital thus hold an important lesson: although Wilf’s interlocutors returned from their adventures with computational creativity with modified, novel, and enriched capacities and predilections, they also gained a renewed appreciation for, and at times a desire to re-inhabit, non-digital creativity. In examining the potentials and pitfalls of seemingly autonomous digital technologies in the realm of art, Wilf shows that computational solutions to the real or imagined insufficiencies of human practice are best developed in relation to, rather than away from, the social and cultural contexts that gave rise to those insufficiencies, in the first place.

Author : Eitan Y. Wilf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828336
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inspiration Machine written by Eitan Y. Wilf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society. In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations of human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. Rather, they approach them as creative partners, delegating to them different degrees of agentive control and artistic decision-making in the hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding their own creative horizons. The algorithms these artists develop and use, however, remain rooted in and haunted by the specific social predicaments and human shortfalls that they were intended to overcome. Experiments in the digital thus hold an important lesson: although Wilf's interlocutors returned from their adventures with computational creativity with modified, novel, and enriched capacities and predilections, they also gained a renewed appreciation for, and at times a desire to re-inhabit, non-digital creativity. In examining the potentials and pitfalls of seemingly autonomous digital technologies in the realm of art, Wilf shows that computational solutions to the real or imagined insufficiencies of human practice are best developed in relation to, rather than away from, the social and cultural contexts that gave rise to those insufficiencies, in the first place.

Author : Sofian Audry
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262367106
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in the Age of Machine Learning written by Sofian Audry and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of machine learning art and its practice in new media art and music. Over the past decade, an artistic movement has emerged that draws on machine learning as both inspiration and medium. In this book, transdisciplinary artist-researcher Sofian Audry examines artistic practices at the intersection of machine learning and new media art, providing conceptual tools and historical perspectives for new media artists, musicians, composers, writers, curators, and theorists. Audry looks at works from a broad range of practices, including new media installation, robotic art, visual art, electronic music and sound, and electronic literature, connecting machine learning art to such earlier artistic practices as cybernetics art, artificial life art, and evolutionary art. Machine learning underlies computational systems that are biologically inspired, statistically driven, agent-based networked entities that program themselves. Audry explains the fundamental design of machine learning algorithmic structures in terms accessible to the nonspecialist while framing these technologies within larger historical and conceptual spaces. Audry debunks myths about machine learning art, including the ideas that machine learning can create art without artists and that machine learning will soon bring about superhuman intelligence and creativity. Audry considers learning procedures, describing how artists hijack the training process by playing with evaluative functions; discusses trainable machines and models, explaining how different types of machine learning systems enable different kinds of artistic practices; and reviews the role of data in machine learning art, showing how artists use data as a raw material to steer learning systems and arguing that machine learning allows for novel forms of algorithmic remixes.

Author : Natalie Fergie
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911586246
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sewing Machine written by Natalie Fergie and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100,000 copies sold 'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than a hundred years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.

Author : Martin Reeves
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1647820871
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagination Machine written by Martin Reeves and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed. We need imagination now more than ever—to find new opportunities, rethink our businesses, and discover paths to growth. Yet too many companies have lost their ability to imagine. What is this mysterious capacity? How does imagination work? And how can organizations keep it alive and harness it in a systematic way? The Imagination Machine answers these questions and more. Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, Martin Reeves of Boston Consulting Group's Henderson Institute and Jack Fuller, an expert in neuroscience, provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a process for creating ideas and bringing them to life: The Seduction: How to open yourself up to surprises The Idea: How to generate new ideas The Collision: How to rethink your idea based on real-world feedback The Epidemic: How to spread an evolving idea to others The New Ordinary: How to turn your novel idea into an accepted reality The Encore: How to repeat the process—again and again. Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of success. It's what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to transformation—especially during a crisis. The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalize this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools at your disposal.

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Total Pages : 1358 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book Mining and Metallurgy written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Bi-monthly Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers written by American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1905-1919 include papers published subsequently in revised form in the institute's Transactions.

Author : American Institute of Mining Engineers
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers written by American Institute of Mining Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: