Together with Megan Elliott (director), Jesse Fleming, and Ash Smith we have won a ~$500k grant to establish a Design Innovation Core as one of the Research Core Facilities in the Nebraska University system. This will allow us to scale up internal and external research collaborations with the unique capabilities at the Johnny Carson Center.… Continue reading NU Grant: Design Innovation Core
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SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop – Measurable Creative AI
I will be hosting a workshop on Measurable Creative AI as part of SIGGRAPH Frontiers, including moderating a live Q&A during the conference. We have an amazing lineup of presenters: Kenric Allado-McDowell – K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben… Continue reading SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop – Measurable Creative AI
RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts
I’m pleased to present a new artwork (Three Stage Drawing Transfer) at the RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts! I’ll also be a panelist for the discussion with Ken Goldberg, Kim Baraka, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, and Eunsu Kang. After years working with mechatronics and various kinds of automation, I’m really looking forward to this discussion… Continue reading RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts
Grant: Cultivating Tools for Imagination in Engineering
Together with Prof. Karcher Morris and Postdoctoral scholar Jon Paden, we have been awarded a $45,000 grant from the UC San Diego Course Development and Instructional Improvement Program (CDIIP) to develop and pilot imagination for engineers within STEM curricula. This builds on work I have done as a lecturer in Data Science, Electrical and Computer… Continue reading Grant: Cultivating Tools for Imagination in Engineering
CMMC CVPR21 Workshop
I am co-organizing a workshop on Computational Measurements of Machine Creativity (CMMC) for CVPR21. Bridging the Gap between Subjective and Computational Measurements of Machine Creativity While the methods for producing machine creativity have significantly improved, the discussion on a scientific consensus on measuring the creative abilities of machines has only begun. As Artificial Intelligence becomes… Continue reading CMMC CVPR21 Workshop
UChicago Text to Image Workshop
I gave a workshop with faculty and graduate students from the University of Chicago Digital Media Workshop and Poetry & Poetics Workshop on Machine Imagination: Text to Image Generation with Neural Networks. Description: With recent advancements in machine learning techniques, researchers have demonstrated remarkable achievements in image synthesis (BigGAN, StyleGAN), textual understanding (GPT-3), and other… Continue reading UChicago Text to Image Workshop
SIGGRAPH SPARKS – Robotics, Electronics, AI
I spoke at the April 30, ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community SPARKS event on Robotics, Electronics, AI, moderated by Hye Yeon Nam and Jan Searleman. My talk, From Experimental Human Computer Interaction to Machine Cohabitation: New Directions in Art, Technology, and Intimate Life, explored human-computer cohabitation: How do we prepare for a future living, working, and… Continue reading SIGGRAPH SPARKS – Robotics, Electronics, AI
NSF Grant: Embodied Coding
We did it! We’ve received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test an Augmented Reality (AR) environment for collaborative coding. After years working on NSF-funded projects, this is my first time as co-PI: https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017042 We’ll be working with HS students from underserved communities in SD to study the efficacy of… Continue reading NSF Grant: Embodied Coding
Measuring Creative AI at ISEA
I’m excited that our workshop, Measuring Computational Creativity: Collaboratively Designing Metrics to Evaluating Creative Machines will be featured at ISEA2020 – Why Sentience? in Montreal in October. Eunsu Kang, Jean Oh, and I, together with ISEA participants, will develop metrics to assess computational creativity. We will address questions including: How do we make a creative… Continue reading Measuring Creative AI at ISEA
New Course – Data Science and the Arts
I’m thrilled to offer my new course through the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. It’s been in the works for about a year now. This course addresses the intersection of data science and contemporary arts and culture, exploring four main themes of authorship, representation, visualization, and data provenance. The course is not… Continue reading New Course – Data Science and the Arts