U1M

UNDER ONE MINUTE

What would be the aesthetics of a collective artistic mind? Can we use artificial intelligence to create an artificial artist with a collective mind? Under 1 Minute (U1M) is an audio-visual performance project that explores the notion of collective artistic mind. The artificial intelligence character “The One” joins three human artists, Mehmet Ünal, Kıvanç Tatar, and Hakan Yılmaz. The AI in U1M learns from human artists to represent collective artistic aesthetics. The One utilizes AI algorithms including (but not limited to) Variational Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks for visuals, Recurrent Neural Networks for text, and Musical Agents based on Self-Organizing Maps for music and sound design. Powered with AI technologies, U1M takes the audience for an experiential journey of audio-visual performance through its unique narrative and aesthetics.

I worked on this project as an A/V artist and asistant director of Hakan Yılmaz. I was responsible for the face mask animations which is syncronizing with led scull character “the One”. I also recorded motion capture data, transformed them to 3D animations in order to give responsive expressions of the character to audiences.

TEAM
ETHEM CEM - VISUAL ARTIST
FIRAT ERKUS- VISUAL ARTIST
BERKAN ALKAN- VISUAL ARTIST
SCOPE ART- VIDEOGRAPHY