A map of visual archives

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Together with JAGDA (Japan Graphic Designer Association), this exhibition explores AI technologies and their potential uses for graphic design.
This particular piece is presented as an interactive installation displaying years worth of material, including posters, illustrations, typographic works, etc.
Using feature extraction models, the archives are mapped into a multidimensional space that translates similarities between works, thus allowing to propose an intuitive way of browsing large amounts of contents.

JAGDA AI exhibition

A generative scene inspired by sci-fi movies

Interactive demo

Horizon is an experimental project developped as part of an exchange program at the Future University of Hakodate, in the north of Japan.
Presented as an audiovisual installation during the annual exhibition of the lab, it showcases continuous a sci-fi movie scene, using only generative techniques for its graphics.
The methods used for rendering the images were directly inspired by the demoscene community, where no disrete geometry is used - pixels are mostly the result of mathematical functions, allowing to bend the rules of physics.
At times, to further evoke a movie scene, the setup picks and displays random quotes from subtitle tracks of actual sci-fi movie.

Horizon

An online exhibition space

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Medium article

Due the pandemic in 2020, the Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF) was held online. For the occasion, we explored ways of conveying the original spatial context of the exhibition.
Using natural language processing techniques, the descriptions of the artworks were analyzed and used to infer a mapping of similarity behind the different projects.
After choosing among several key concepts, visitors are presented with a virtual walk through this map, as if it were an actual gallery space.

SIAF2020 Matrix

A platform for AI sound experiments

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Unsettled Music is a series of web experiments dedicated to showcasing some of the creative research happening at Qosmo Inc. on sound, graphics, and machine learning.
As the team works on various projects, some focused on music making, others closer to data visualization, many small ideas and pieces of software are often left unused.
Works shared as part of the series aren't meant to explore their subject thoroughly — they are more like snapshots of an idea, with humble ambitions.
Exploring the outskirts of AI techniques often leads to unusual outputs - this weirdness is at the core of the project.

Unsettled Music

An AI engine matching sounds to images

Imaginary Soundscape is long-term project where AI models are used to match sounds to images.
As visitors browse Google Streetview or upload their own pictures, they get to hear a soundtrack that may or may not match their expectations.
This website was featured on the Google Arts & Experiments platform. It was presented at the NTT ICC Open Space exhibition in Tokyo, as well as the McaM museum of Shanghai and others.

Imaginary Soundscape

An AI-powered beatboxing machine

Neural Beatbox is an AI-powered beatboxing machine. Using several models, it listens to the users' recordings, picks drum-like snippets and generates rhythms with them.
Started in 2018, the project has gone through several iterations. Originally exhibited at the "AI: More than Human" exhibition at the Barbican Centre, it now also lives online for everyone to use.
Neural Beatbox was also featured at NVIDIA's GTC conference in 2021.

Neural Beatbox

An art piece capturing radio waves

Study For A Surrounding Entropy is an artistic project presented as part of the Media Ambition Tokyo 2019 exhibition.
The artwork is a generative audiovisual installation that listens to ambient radio waves and turns them into a sensory presence, through the use of textured sounds and organic visuals.
This project is a part of a personal interest in invisible phenomenons and the noise in the nature around us.

Study For a Surrounding Entropy

An audio plugin and platform for AI models

Neutone is an audio plugin that allows users to run AIs models directly withing music-making programs such as Ableton, Reaper, etc.
It also functions as a platform for hosting those models - users are invited to submit their own models and make them available to others.
The project aims at providing an ergonomic tool that is useful to both musicians and researchers in the domain.
The interface of Neutone was built using web technologies in order to implement a modern, custom design.

Neutone

An installation focusing on noise

Exhibition announcement

64 Memories Of Noise is an audiovisual installation that was displayed at the Anteroom gallery in Kyoto, Japan, during summer 2022.
The setup plays sounds and visuals that are generated based on recordings of noise levels from the surrounding streets of the city.
This collection of audio recordings can be seen as a diary of memories of arbitrary data - it questions the nature of archives and the meaning we attach to them.
The goal of this artwork is to let visitors observe the texture of the noise around them, rather than its content.

Robin Jungers

Creative direction,

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