During January Cyanne van den Houten will be an UmArts TAIGA Artist Researcher in Residence, developing new Art and AI micro-projects investigating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as part of the Art and AI Working Group.
During the residency van den Houten will work on their project aleatory.agent, a micro-AI-project that integrates algorithmic chance into the creation of visual art through computer-controlled machines.
Unlike conventional generative AI tools, the project focuses on embodiment and audience interaction, making the creative process an intuitive experience between people and generative AI systems. It embraces unexpected outcomes by random and controlled variables in image and text generation, using algorithms as the primary creative and performative force. The project explores the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of collaborating with AI, addressing questions of agency, authorship, and control.
At the end of the residency van den Houten will have an Open Studio event at UmArts. More info soon…
Please join the us 22 January at 13.15-14.45 for a HumLab Share with Cyanne van den Houten
Cyanne van den Houten is a queer media artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Their practice revolves around the parallels between magic and technology, with the works they aims to explore the synthetic connection between humans and machines. Van den Houten´s practice is a playful, intuitive place where she hacks current low and high technologies to understand the workings of it. With a background as a (graphic) designer (MA Arts in Design at Sandberg Instituut), her way of working has a design research mentality, foundation in media theory and big makers energy. The common thread in her work is that the machine is always in control over the outcome. Self-built generative systems, chance-based procedures, ever-changing data streams and co-creation with (non)human actors are deeply embedded in her creative practice since 2018. Van den Houten founded art-meets-tech collective Telemagic (www.telemagic.online) in 2016 to uncover the mysteries that revolve around new media and transform them in tangible experiences. Art-meets-tech collective Telemagic give concerts led by artificial intelligence, make interactive installations that dream through museum archives and generative oracles that predict possible futures. With her project aleatory.agent she aims to explore the integration of algorithmic chance operations in the creation of visual art through computer-controlled machines. Unlike typical AI art tools, her project emphasizes the physical interaction between the artist, audience, and machine, developing playful methodologies that embrace the unexpected with algorithms as the primary creative force. The outcome will be a toolkit of animistic instruments playable during performances, introducing randomness to guide both robots (like 3d printers, CNC cutters, drawing bots and plotters) and myself in real-time creation.