Category: art

UCLA Course on “Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning”

During the Fall of 2020, I had the honor of teaching a new course at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) entitled “Cultural Appropriation with Machine Learning”. This provocatively titled course came together …

NFT Pixels

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens are data stored on the blockchain that certifies and records transactions associated with a digital asset. Effectively, they are certificates of authenticity of digital assets traded on blockchain-based exchanges that have spurred an economy of scarcity …

YouTube’s “Copyright School” Smash Up

Ever wonder what happens when you’ve been accused of violating copyright multiple times on YouTube? First, you get a redirect to YouTube’s “Copyright School” whenever you visit YouTube, forcing you to watch a cartoon of Happy Tree Friends …

Intention in Copyright

The following article is written for the LUCID Studio for Speculative Art based in India.

Introduction

My work in audiovisual resynthesis aims to create models of how humans represent and attend to audiovisual scenes. Using pattern recognition of both audio …