Observing the movements of an ant on a beach, Herbert Simon once noted: “Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant’s path is irregular, complex, hard to describe. But its complexity is really a complexity in the surface of the beach, not a complexity in the ant.” This project is about moving images whose complexity arises from such interactions – interactions between things and their environments but also between things and other things. We will look at artificial life and artificial intelligence for image-making, at agent-based simulations, virtual evolution and adversarial images in deep learning. And we will apply these systems to the design of animations.
This work will be done in collaboration with students from three European schools: Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, and Tampere University of Applied Sciences.
After working at KISD and collaborating remotely, the project will travel to Tampere, Finland, for a final week of working and then presenting the results. The trip to this international summer school will take place from May 1 to 7 and is a mandatory part of the project.