Ikiru (“To Live”) is a 1952 Film by Akira Kurosawa and serves as the canvas for this data driven intervention. The film famously tackles the theme of bureaucracy and how it can cause one to waste their life way. This concept terrifies me, in creative industry the same sentiment rings true. we must envision a break down to the barrier of bureaucratic behaviours and establish open forms of education and accessibility. Data Vision attempts to establish pedagogy and referencing accessibility to amateurs or professionals. Data in this case has the ability to identify characteristics that strip away all redundancy leaving a pure form of expression to be interpretable and hopefully recognisable. I see the themes Kurosawa evokes in his message and believe they reflect the intention a computer has when learning to see for the first time. It transforms into a tool to fight against wasted time. The shaky instability of the detection algorithm mimics the way a child stumbles when learning to walk. In 20 years a quantum computer will be able to detect every wrinkle that appears in this moving image
INTRODUCING DATA VISION: DEMO 1
This tacky promotional videos serves as an introduction to the algorithm I’ve been developing over the summer called DATA VISION. The test demos included in the videos are running in real time via webcam. the development process is monitored with the changes and refinement done to the object tracking and detection.
ENVIROMENTAL INTERVENTION: RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA / Complications with Rendering on CPU
Restricted countries use social media to target data driven free speech which can get you imprisoned or killed. My rebuttal is to humanize data and decompartmentalize the mentality that data can only revoke your humanity. It also has capability to express a narrative. In this example each car represents a soul, this data aims to acknowledge the humanity found at an overpass. This is my attempt at using Data Vision as an assistive tool in expressing creativity.
This demo was conducted in Al Mursalat, Riyadh (24.75210° N, 46.69910° E) whilst scouting locations to test DATA VISION’S object detection capabilities for tracking moving objects. The video was shot on iPhone at 60fps then descaled to fit into the algorithms parameter requirements. This final edit had to be fast forwarded 8x as the initial rendering outputs the video at a painful 3fps. I will now investigate methods of using the GPU as main processor, in hopes of a smoother and faster final rendering.
August 10th, 2024
SUMMER RESEARCH BOOK 1 : THE UTOPIAN VISION OF MOHOLY NAGY
László Moholy-Nagy was a visionary artist who bridged the gap between art and technology at the BAUHAUS, He believed that technology could be a powerful tool for artists, His artwork Black-red equilibrium (1922) —stripped an artwork down to its fundamental elements of shape, color, and form. The shapes are perfectly coordinated to the colour light spectrum evoking the feeling of a canvas that was transported from a perfected utopian world.
This perspective and intention parallels the way computer vision algorithms analyze and interpret visual data. Just as Moholy used photograms to reduce objects to their essence, my developed DATA VISION aims to continue this legacy by simplifying and refining the world through its data . In essence, Moholy-Nagy refers to photography as the mechanical process of representation, DATA VISION is the mechanical process of detection and conceptualism.
review: 5/5 – necessary read for the zeitgeist conceptualist and gives new insight into modernist movement.
(IMAGE ABOVE SHOWS PRELIMINARY DEMO OF DATA VISION OBJECT DETECTION CODE RUNNING IN REAL TIME VIA WEBCAM)
Experimenting with Rendering Software
During this weeks research and development of the DATA VISION tool i began to write scripts that connect a user to a third party rendering software (VIZCOM.AI) this software allows users to upload a conceptual drawing or design (Left) followed by a short description of their desired rending parameters and outputted is a hyper-realistic render of the conceptual design(Right). How can I incorporate this script into my final user interface? my DATA VISION tool can benefit from a small interactive ui which displays a rendered version of a users design alongside information and references. (image above is my design and render of a retro futurist lounge chair using Viacom.ai )
May 21st 2024