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Eyal Gruss [IL] : Avatars in Zoom for All!
For the workshop you need a computer with a webcam, a modern browser, a Gmail account (it needs to be Google email) and Zoom.
Please think about how you would like to use the webcam to animate facial images and prepare some material (image, video, audio) you would use in the workshop.
We are looking forward to meeting you all!
How can you be anybody in Zoomspace? Very recent developments in deep-learning, allow creating synthetic media of unprecedented quality and ease. The first-order-motion-model can do facial reenactment in real-time, provided with only a single image of your desired avatar. This came not a moment too soon, as Human communication was forced to move online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Can this be an opportunity to fulfill the long promised cybernetic utopia, where we could shed our physical shells and become however we wish to be? And how does this pertain to issues of privacy, identity and trust? I will review the contemporary technologies and show how I use them in my artistic and activist practices. This is a hands-on participatory tutorial, where you will create deep-fake videos using your own materials, and play with various options of becoming an online avatar. No prior knowledge needed.
Teaser and video invitation: youtu.be/vwW8dSKMpSE
Eyal Gruss
Eyal Gruss is a new-media artist and a machine learning practitioner, holding a PhD in physics. His artistic works explore and exploit the relationship between poetry, technology and society. They include poetry, algorithmic poetry, interactive installations, digital performances, AI art and online interventions. Gruss gives talks and workshops on machine learning and computational creativity, with focus on making them accessible to artists and to the general public. His works were exhibited in Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, Bat-Yam Museum, Herzelia Museum for contemporary arts, Meter-Al-Meter festival, Ars-Electronica festival, Print Screen festival, Fresh Paint festival, Karov theater, DLD in Tel-Aviv, SVA in New York, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Midarom Festival, Utopia Festival, Petach-Tikva Museum, Stuttrart FilmWinter and most importantly the Internet, to name a few. He is also running an opportunities newsletter and a mini-residency for new-media artists.
eyalgruss.com
