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Frankenstein’s Telephone Explore gender bias through interactive AI art

  • Digital Event
  • Wheelchair Access
  • Visual Rating 100%
  • Victoria
  • Physical Distance Rating 100%
  • PG - Parental Guidance recommended for under 15 years
Visual Arts & Film
Three images generated by three different AIs. The prompt for generating the first image was a man riding a skateboard down a street. You can see a leg somewhat well defined, but the person appears to be missing a torso. There are something like trees in the background. These second image is an abstract image made by segmenting the different parts of the original image. The colors are red, turquoise, gray and purple in abstract looking splashes where the AI has identified parts of the previous image and color coded them. The red stands for person. The third image is new photographic data filling in those colored regions with a new AI's interpretation. It looks like a person in the snow with a lot of clothing. The first and third image have a lot of movement. The image behind the three is a heavily blurred and pale version of the abstract image.
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Interactive Digital  |  Online  |  Exhibition
Pushing The Comfort Zone
Synopsis

‘Frankenstein's Telephone’ is a conceptual artwork created using artificial intelligence to examine how computer vision expresses gender classifications. On this site you can view AI Artist J. Rosenbaum's original works exploring gender as seen and created by computers, read about the techniques and algorithms used and have the opportunity to make your own works from a text prompt or an image upload.

Play your own game of "telephone" and share the generated captions with your friends so that they can enter it in to keep the chain going and produce weird and wonderful AI artworks! if you visit the website via mobile you can take and upload photos, if you visit via desktop you can enter a caption, a music lyric, a description and see the different neural networks produce a custom chain reaction in response.

This interactive art project is possible through the generous support of the City of Melbourne Covid 19 Arts Grants.

This project is amplified by Melbourne Fringe through the Ralph Mclean Microgrant program.

Warning: Contains high level of audience participation, potentially triggering content or themes