Floating Dots

Artist: Yuelin Yang
MA Photography The Image & Electronic Arts

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Many people lost loved ones during the pandemic.
Humankind is really limited.
In great grief, I took these images, trying to ask some questions about death, about memories.

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▎MA Digital Media & MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts.
▎2021 Degree Show.
▎Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Artist: Lucy Mudel

MA Digital Media - Image Making

▎biomorphic syntheses 
biomorphic syntheses is created as a collaboration between the human image maker and machine learning image synthesis programs by training generative adversarial networks, including both styleGAN and artGAN. Renderings from these models are then used as assets in animation, reviving inanimate form to bring the appearance of life.
 
The project’s intention is to provoke a dialogue on how image makers can use digital programs as tools to enhance their artistic practice; as well as intending to illuminate the necessity of the creator’s input to generate the models themselves and new imagery.  At the beginning of the animation, one can see the actual visual outputs of the first steps of the artGAN learning what “surrealism” looks like. This work focuses on the idea of questioning organic design, concepts of novel being, animism, and interconnectedness of carbon systems in the forest mycorrhizal network as well as the digital network. This work creates a dialogue on carbon and pixel transfer, in both an environmental sense, data storage, and archiving.
 
This work is presented in a square format as both the styleGAN and artGAN output new images from transferred pixels of the inputted datasets using vector based square ratios. Deep learning systems also require a large amount of storage, subsequently requiring a great deal of energy. Presently this work has collectively required approximately 15 GB of storage. While it is difficult to measure the environmental impact of small scale deep learning models, training a single deep learning model can emit thousands of pounds of CO2 emissions.

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▎MA Digital Media & MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts.
▎2021 Degree Show.
▎Goldsmiths, University of London.
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We are all dots floating in the universe; each with different paths and rhythms, yet we merge and connect as we pass each other.

Save the date 20/07/2021!

▎MA Digital Media & MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts.
▎Degree Show '21.
▎Goldsmiths, University of London.


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Artist: Qin Xu
MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts.

▎Current work-in-progress.

Qin Xu has recently started a new project, contemporary and concrete work on a certain intimacy mentioned in a novel by Itano Calvino. The concept from the novel is a mixture of personal observations of the present and explorations of the near future. This project is currently developing mainly in the form of photography.

▎MA Digital Media & MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts.
▎Degree Show '21.
▎Goldsmiths, University of London.