During the last 2,5 years I co-lead the XLab, the first dedicated
lab for AI & Robotics at a German art & design university (Burg
Giebichenstein). Since November 2022 I am a researcher at AI+D Lab
at HfG Schwäbisch-Gmünd and also part of
KITeGG, a joint research project of 5 universities on the integration of
AI in design education. I am the co-host of the podcast "Towards
co-creation" in which we speak with artists and designers on how
they apply machine learning in their creative practices. My
educational background reflects my long term interest in the
intersection of computation and cognition, language, art and AI: I
studied Fine Art in Germany and France and then did a BA in
Artificial Intelligence (2013) at the University of Amsterdam.
Conference curation/organization
"Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design"
(8-12 May 2023)
In the spring of 2023 I curated and organized the 5-day conference
at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd packed with
talks, panels and workshop of international experts from the area
of design, art and research.
AI/ML
Design
Education
Community
2023
Talk @ NeurIPS
Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
In 2022 I was honored to be invited as a speaker to the NeurIPS
conference. My talk focused on the adoption of generative AI
models by creatives, the diversity of user experiences and
questioned the narrative that this new generation of generative AI
tools is providing "super powers" to creatives
NeurIPS
AI/ML
Research
Language
Co-creativity
Community
2022
Emotional Glossary for Creative AI
How does it feel to work creatively with machine learning? This
crowd-sourced project attempts to map the landscape of emotions
that we observe when we interact with generative machine learning
systems in a creative manner.
AI/ML
Research
Language
Co-creativity
Community
2022 (ongoing)
XLab @ Burg Giebichenstein
For 2,5 years I was the co-lead of the first lab for AI & Robotics
at a German art university: The XLab at the University of Art and
Design Burg Giebichenstein
AI/ML
Research
Teaching
Co-creativity
2020-2022
Podcast "Towards co-creation
Tech/Art Podcast where my co-host Simon and I chat with designers
and artists about how they use machine learning and other AI tools
in their creative practices
AI/ML
Research
Co-creativityCommunity
2021 (ongoing)
VQGAN+CLIP - How does it work? (2021)
Medium Article in which I explain the image-to-text architecture
VQGAN+CLIP which preceded the diffusion technique.
Article
Tech
AI/ML
AI Education
2021
Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm
(VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)
Medium Article in which I explain the specific VQGAN+CLIP
implementation written by artist/programmer Katherine Crowson (aka
@RiversHaveWings) which went viral in the summer of 2021.
Article
Tech
AI/ML
AI Education
2021
Creative AI Workshops
During my time at the XLab I conceived and organized a couple of
getting started workshops
AI/ML
Co-creativity
AI Education
Teaching
2020 - 2022
Latent Riot
Art work. Training a neural network with street protest signs
AI/ML
Art
Feminist
2021, with
Moving Target Collective
Moving Target Collective
Artist collective tackling topics at the intersection of
technology, AI myths, gender, feminism (together with: Amelie
Goldfuß and Natalie Sontopski)
AI/ML
Art
Feminist
Research
Teaching
AI at the art school
Medium article written at the launch of the XLab in 2020
AI/ML
Art
Co-creativity
Research
Teaching
2020
Verboscope
A conversational interface for text2image for collaborative
imagination (Stable Diffusion)
AI/ML
Design
Programming
Interface
UX
2022
Workshop on creative writing with GPT-3 in the context of
speculative funeral practices
This was an online workshop I conceived for BWA gallery of
contemporary art in Wroclaw (Poland), where we experimented with
the generative language model GPT-J (the open-source cousin of
GPT-3)
AI/ML
Co-creativity
Teaching
AI Education
2022