amy I’ve had a couple of requests to see one of my works-in-progress — my first foray into working with generative machine learning. So here it is, an alternative to DeepFakes: DeepReals. The First Three Minutes Every frame from the first three minutes of Christine Blasey Ford’s and Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, … Read more
My bad, I’ve been overly sporadic about my sporadic updates again! Been busy, but here’s a brief one: Still working on new online/installation project. Buzzwordy keywords: Real-time video, social media, algorithmic subjectivity, computer vision. Hopefully will have the equipment soon to get a beta version online, but mainly focusing on teaching til early June. Teaching! … Read more
A quick update on what I’ve been up to during sabbatical: Working on a new durational, real-time algorithmic, live streamed movie / installation project. Almost ready to debut; stay tuned! Also, happy to report that “June 8th, 2018” (take 2) a real-time improvised short film produced within a studio rehearsal of PIGS performance, has been … Read more
Sabbatical update: I’m making new work! Focusing on online and installation work once again; a few different projects: Algorithmic. Video. Still Image. Computer vision. Border region. Global. Social media. Speculative futures. And presents. Despite the string of buzzwords, those are really some of the topics I’m working on. Some of it follows on from the … Read more
Back in 2013, Rick Silva invited me to make a project for the “W-E-S-T-E-R-N D-I-G-I-T-A-L” pavilion he was curating at The Wrong Biennale. “W-E-S-T-E-R-N D-I-G-I-T-A-L” being a pavilion featuring the work of west coast artists, I started thinking about what “west coast” means — and what “California” means. I decided to do something on the … Read more
[For those coming here anew: Here’s what PIGS is, and an intro to the AlgoCurator who selected the clips for “June 8th.” ] I’d already posted the full length studio rehearsal / improvised audiovisual animation, “June 8th, 2018,” that Curt Miller and I recorded last month. Came across the second run-through from that day — … Read more
I’ve put together a new video discussing the Percussive Image Gestural System. Mostly I’m discussing / demonstrating the software from an real time experimental animation / visual music perspective: I talk about the main ways the PIGS system implements its approach to “structured improvisation.” Inside PIGS: Amy Alexander discusses the Percussive Image Gestural System from … Read more
Happy summer! I’ve got lots of new PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System) stuff posted! Videos: (all with Curt Miller): The first three are the first videos I’ve been able to make with a satisfactory capture setup. (Frame rate not quite up to snuff on the first one so it looks jerkier than in “real life,” … Read more
Tomorrow evening June 16th! The amazing Curt Miller and I will be performing PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System) at International Conference on Live Interfaces in Porto. It’ll be the debut of PIGS 2.0 and the AlgoCurator. For those of you have been wondering the difference(s) between PIGS 2.0 and PIGS 1.0 — and those of … Read more
I’m pleased as pizza to have curated this spring’s “Performing Code” exhibition featuring Shelly Knotts at gallery@calit2. Now I’m especially ecstatic to be hosting the closing event, “Performing Code Live:” —– Please join us Thursday June 7th for “Performing Code Live” at Calit2 Auditorium. “Performing Code Live” is the closing event for the “Performing Code” … Read more