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 …
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 …
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 …
Dear Sony ATV Publishing, UMPG Publishing, and other concerned parties,
I ask you to please withdraw your copyright violation notice on my video, “PSY – GANGNAM STYLE (?????) M/V (YouTube SmashUp)” as I believe my use of any …
I’ve been working on an art project which takes the top 10 videos in YouTube and tries to resynthesize the #1 video in YouTube using the remaining 9 videos. The computational model is based on low-level human perception and uses …
The following article is written for the LUCID Studio for Speculative Art based in India.
My work in audiovisual resynthesis aims to create models of how humans represent and attend to audiovisual scenes. Using pattern recognition of both audio …