Latent Organism: A tangible interface for 3D co-creation with AI

Masclef, Ninon Lizé; Chuttarsing, Adrien

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Author(s): Ninon Lizé Masclef , Adrien Chuttarsing

Publication date (Print): July 2023

Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2023 (EVA 2023)

Conference theme: Since 1990, the EVA London Conference has established itself as one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and interdisciplinary conferences in the field of digital visualisation. The papers and abstracts in this volume cover areas such as the arts, culture, heritage, museums, music, performance, visual art, and visualisation, as well as related interdisciplinary areas, in combination with technology. The latest research and work by early career researchers, established scholars, practitioners, research students, and visual artists, can be found in this volume, published in full colour.

Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Touch, 3D Graphics, Creativity, E-Textile

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Latent Organism proposes a novel technique for the design of 3D objects using a tangible interface. Our artefact takes advantage of generative algorithms to let anyone produce unique and complex 3D shapes through natural and playful interactions with an intuitive and sensitive tactile interface. This process of co-creation between the human and the machine through a balanced interaction is a way of appropriating an artificial imagination. For this experiment, the machine was fed thousands of photos of living organisms. Its property of learning and generalisation allows it to converge towards an abstract conception of the idea of organic flesh. Then, navigation is possible in this continuous space of potentiality. The spectator is in control, using the imagination of the machine as clay, as a moldable material.

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Ninon Lizé Masclef

Adrien Chuttarsing

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Vélizy, France

[0002]Paris-Saclay University

Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2023.30

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Conference date: 10–14 July 2023

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[1] R. Anadol (2019). Machine Hallucination. Available at: http://refikanadol.com/works/machine-hallucination-nyc/ (Accessed: 11 March 2023).

[2] G. Brett (1968). Kinetic art. Studio-Vista; Reinhold Book Corp.

[3] M. del Campo (2022). Machine Hallucinations: Architecture & Artificial Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Nashville.

[4] K. P. Fishkin (2004). A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interfaces. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(5), pp. 347–358.

[5] P. Galanter (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Problems in Generative Art Theory. Retrieved from http://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.22

[6] W. Gibson (2000). Neuromancer. Penguin Publishing Group.

[7] I. J. Goodfellow, J. Pouget-Abadie, M. Mirza, B. Xu, D. Warde-Farley, S. Ozair, A. Courville and Y. Bengio (2014). Generative Adversarial Networks. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

[8] A. Hertzmann (2019). Aesthetics of Neural Network Art. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05696

[9] J. Hurtienne, & J. H. Israel (2007). Image Schemas and Their Metaphorical Extensions: Intuitive Patterns for Tangible Interaction. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI '07) (pp. 127–134). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

[10] A. Jain, B. Mildenhall, J. T. Barron, P. Abbeel, & B. Poole (2022). Zero-Shot Text-Guided Object Generation with Dream Fields (arXiv:2112.01455). arXiv. http://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.01455

[11] N. Jetchev (2021). ClipMatrix: Text-controlled Creation of 3D Textured Meshes. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12922

[12] P. Kivrak 2020. Art walks in latent spaces. Available at: http://www.goethe.de/prj/k40/en/kun/lat.html

[13] M. Merleau-Ponty, C. Lefort, & A. Lingis (1968). The Visible and the Invisible: Followed by Working Notes. Northwestern University Press.

[14] O. Michel, R. Bar-On, R. Liu, S. Benaim and R. Hanocka (2021). Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshes. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03221

[15] T. Mikolov, K. Chen, G. Corrado and J. Dean (2013). Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781

[16] S. Mithen (1997). The prehistory of the mind. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 7, pp. 269–269.

[17] D. Moulon (2021). Intelligence in art. Art Press, (492), pp. 42–47.

[18] A. Radford, J. W. Kim, C. Hallacy, A. Ramesh, G. Goh, S. Agarwal, G. Sastry, A. Askell, P. Mishkin, J. Clark, G. Krueger and I. Sutskever (2021). Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020

[19] M. Satomi (2020). Artificial Intelligence and its False Lies. Available at: http://www.kobakant.at/false-lies (Accessed: 11 March 2023).

[20] G. Simondon (2017). On the mode of existence of technical objects. Univocal Publishing Minneapolis.

[21] A. Somaini (2022). On the altered states of machine vision: Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Grégory Chatonsky. AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images, 1(I), pp. 1–20.

[22] B. Stiegler (1998). Technics and time: The fault of Epimetheus. Stanford University Press.

[23] B. Ullmer and H. Ishii (2000). Emerging frameworks for tangible user interfaces. IBM Systems Journal, 39(3.4), pp. 915–931. Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5387042

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