For my master thesis 'I, rowboat: The Intricacies of AI & Poetry' in the Interface Cultures program of the Arts University in Linz I built an app called 'The Poetic Hivemind'. The app provided its users with a daily inspiration to write a poem. The contributed poems were then used to fine tune a GPT-2 model to generate more of the type of poems.
In my session I'm going to give a demo of that app, show the training and generation process and also talk about the theoretical points made in my thesis.
Please see https://tofu.wtf/poems/ for more info about the project.
I hope that my sessions attracts people with an interest in computer poems. The space of machine poetry and collaborative writing with self built tools seems to be ready for new joint projects that could emerge from this encounter.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:I am fairly flexible and prepared to disseminate some of my knowledge and entertain everything from a small crowd to a huge group of people.
Fabian is a Swiss designer, developer and artists that uses processes and methodologies from Interface and Interaction Design to expose the contradictions of our contemporary capitalistic society with the users