Index

  1. Generative Brushstrokes
  2. Neural Walks
  3. Swiss Mountain Series
  4. Into The Grasps
  5. MATRverse



Focus


❋    Cultural Analytics
❖    Data Visualization
✦    Creative AI Agents 
✜    New Media

Swiss Mountain Series

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The story of the Swiss Mountain Series began in Summer 2020 when hiking in the Swiss Alps I stumbled upon a lake looking like a heart and became curious if there are more lakes like this. Parsing through the Swiss geospatial database containing 25000+ water bodies, I used the shape-detection algorithm to discover lakes with peculiar shapes, the glacier concentrations etc.  

The first series - HEART-SHAPED - is a discovery experience based on the collection of images, each representing the real mountain lake somewhere in Switzerland. Not just a random lake, but resembling a shape of ❤. For this series, in collaboration with the digital art platform Objkt we created a custom reveal blockchain protocol. Behind the layers of procedural creative coding, a unique body of Nature is hidden, and the collectors get to decide whether to reveal it to others.  

The second series, dedicated to Swiss mountain glaciers, is commissioned by the ETH Glaciology Lab.  For this project I am training a custom GAN model on aerial photographs of glaciers to capture and reproduce the process of melting.  


The map of all water bodies in Switzerland
Visualization of the shape detection algorithm
Screenshot of the lake discovery app
Style2Gan (a generative adversarial network) is learning on the dataset of heart shapes and lake to synthesize new heart-shaped lakes. 

PROJECT STAGE: Production

RELEVANT LINKS: Heart-shaped project page: link ↗

CREDITS: Timothy Mc Alister (objkt.com , collaborator), Vadim Epstein (AI/ML advisor),  Dr. Matthias Huss (ETH Glaciology Lab, project advisor).


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