{"id":2626,"date":"2018-08-08T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/?post_type=pkm_artwork&p=2626"},"modified":"2023-08-16T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:40:44","slug":"walt-disney-concert-hall","status":"publish","type":"pkm_artwork","link":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/works\/walt-disney-concert-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Concert Hall Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celebrating the centennial anniversary of the LA Philharmonic, Mital designed and built multiple AI and machine learning algorithms that were used to analyze and present a century of archival data – over 45 terabytes of information – in various forms including generative images and bespoke video artworks. The work is both a look at the past 100 years of the LA Phil\u2019s musical history and an imagination of what the next 100 years could look like, culminating in a public art symphony projected onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The artwork addresses the question: \u201cwhen we dream, our minds process memories to form new combinations of images and ideas. Can a concert hall do the same?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than three months, Mital together with members of Refik Anadol Studio dove into the archives generated from four different homes of the LA Philharmonic, collecting and structuring massive amounts of data. From there, Mital developed multiple custom neural network models with the ability to re-structure and organize the corpus of image, video, and audio media- a spectacularly difficult challenge when working with tens of terabytes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The models were ultimately able to categorize information, isolate structured segments of audio, and identify similarities within segments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Image Courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the performance leverages the Walt Disney Concert Hall to present three unique chapters of \u201cdreams\u201d from the multiple neural network models Mital designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first chapter, \u201cCentennial Memories,\u201d uses convolutional neural network models (CNN) to generate metadata and create infographic representations of the archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Images Courtesy of Refik Anadol Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second chapter of the performance features speculative images created using generative adversarial networks (GAN) trained on archival images from the previous century of data. The GAN algorithms create bespoke, generative videos as well as sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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