KARYN EASTON
Mar 03
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Ameca Voice Cloning – There doesn’t seem to be a day going by that doesn’t involve a new announcement about advances in AI.  I wholeheartedly believe that all artists should make themselves fully aware of both the opportunities and threats presented by this. Ameca is a highly advanced robot that I mentioned in my research paper.  Even since writing that paper things have substantially moved on.  Below is a short clip of Ameca speaking using the voices of famous people.  In my opinion to say that we are rapidly approaching a ‘post truth society’ is an understatement.  I think it’s already here.  
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Feb 27
by Karyn in 3d, Final Major Project, Final Outcomes, My Work, Problem Solving, Sculpture, Threats, Unit 3 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: 3d, Final Major Project, Final Outcomes, my work, Problem Solving, Sculpture, threats, Unit 3 Blogs, Videos

First Looks

First Footage from the ‘Balance of Power’ Mobile It feels like it has been a long journey to get to this point, but at last the mobile is up and running.  It stands around 3m tall and is by far one of the largest structures that I have ever made all by myself.  Although, I haven’t kept an hourly diary of how long the mobile has taken to complete, I know that it has taken many weeks.  At the moment the balance of the mobile is quite precarious and this is quite a threat to the project so I need to ensure that it is really secure going forward.  I already had one mishap this morning while trying to hang it up.  All of the pieces ended up on the floor, so this is far from ideal if it is to be transported then hung.  My intention is to ensure that all of the mobile elements are secured so that if the balance does tip then everything will be relatively contained. In many ways hanging the mobile is just the very start of the journey as there is so much more hidden in the whole structure.  However, I will begin […]
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Nov 05
by Karyn in Ai, Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Ai Chat, Books, Evaluations, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Polls and Surveys, Problem Solving, Research, Research Paper Journey, Supervisor Meetings, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Research Paper Thoughts and Background

Research Paper 3 – Thoughts, Background and Final Version That’s it – no more!  Yesterday and today became the ‘final straw’ with my research paper!  Why? Because yesterday my ‘dying’ on its ‘last legs’ MacBook Pro decided that it was going to literally lose all of my research papers and drafts.  I know it’s somewhat unbelievable but this actually happened! Months of hard work seemed to have disappeared in front of my eyes.  The files were no longer there!  I tried opening programs that I had used to construct the last version of my paper, but it was always the same message ‘File cannot be found’. I even convinced my self that there was some evil hacker trying to sabotage my work, that’s how upset I was.  At one point I even thought I must be having a nightmare and that I would wake up soon. As I had been editing the document in Adobe’s PDF editing program I thought to myself, ‘Ha’ there will be a copy stored in Adobe’s creative cloud.  So, feeling somewhat smug, I looked at my recent documents there, only to discover that on opening my research paper it gave an error message saying ‘bad […]
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Sep 20
by Karyn in Ai, My Work, Opportunities, Patterns, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: ai, my work, opportunities, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

The Robots Are Here

Doom and Gloom or Hybrid Art Opportunity? – Love it or hate it – the robots are here!  Below is a selection of robots generated as a visual experiment.  No two robots are the same.  Each one has its own unique character.  They are all bringing balloons as a gift.  There are seventy of them in total, although more were generated.  They are all a by product of my research paper.  They were fun to generate and I’ll just leave them here.    
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Sep 20
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Problem Solving, Research, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, my work, Problem Solving, Research, threats, Unit 2 Blogs

Deeper Meaning

How to Find Meaning? – Having recently finished 21 days of an augmented reality investigation followed by another 21 days of research paper investigation and compilation, I’m feeling somewhat down.  I think that primarily it is due to my investigations into AI generated art.  The further I dig into this, the more depressed I become.  I’m sure this is just a transient phase.  Why am I so sad?  It’s because over the years I learnt so much about photography.  I collected a wealth of knowledge on this subject especially because each year I tried to present my students with increasingly technically challenging workshops.  I was proud that I was able to replicate pretty much any style of photography from slow shutter work to speed shooting, star trails to zoom burst, macro photography to physiograms. I felt I had reached the pinnacle when I managed to work out the technique that Michael Jackson (the photographer not the pop singer), uses to make his ethereal Luminograms.  Even today colleagues are badgering me to give up that secret which I flatly refuse.  It’s so beautifully simple yet complex at the same time and I nailed it! However, with the advent of AI art […]
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May 06
by Karyn in 3d, Abstract Art, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Mentions, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: 3d, Abstract Art, Artists, Experimentation, Mentions, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

A Temporary Distraction

The Annual College End of Year Film – Each year for the last few years I have been invited to produce our college end of year film.  It’s a long and quite complex task because it has to really showcase our department.  It needs to appeal to parents, staff and students alike.  Unfortunately because it is such a massive undertaking, my research has had to go on hold for a little while.  However in a couple of weeks I am due to fly out to Barcelona, so hopefully I‘ll have plenty of travelling time to catch up on my studies. In the meantime, I thought it would be interesting to document my film making process.  Each year I write all of the script, edit all of the video and use character animation software to enable animated characters to read the story’s narrative.  Often I also need to shoot my own video in order to help with the story and to fill in any gaps.  In fact I’m responsible for it all!  Over the last two years I’ve used a character I named ‘Horace ‘Boris’ Hedgehog’ (trust me, by watching the previous 2 films, his name becomes clear), this year it […]
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Oct 24
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Ai on the March

Saving Assets for Later – In the process of experimenting with Ai text to image, I generated a number of stills documented in my post Human Coding and Ai Generated Imagery for Animation.  Currently I am waiting for some ‘Chladni’ equipment arriving from Ireland.  Therefore, instead of wasting time, I decided to experiment with some of the small animations I made in that post.   Video 1. A combination of Clips The video below was a composite of all of the short clips I generated from my software tutorial. I like the fluid motion of the clips and the way they spread. I feel this could be a visual metaphor for the relentless spread of Ai into our lives.   Video 2. Ai from an Early Age The video below is an experiment moving on from video 1.  I added an iPad and a cake and candle.  This represents the march of Ai from an increasingly early age.   Video 3. Ai on the March This was my preferred video from the series of experiments.  It is a simple video short exploring the tentacle like spread of images across a screen.  The calming music to each video is there to […]
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