Painting Music Live Performance
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Come and view this unique live performance by visual artist and filmmaker Kate Steenhauer.
Painting Music is a collaboration between Kate Steenahuer and AI developers Dr Andrew Starkey and Jack Caven. It uses Explainable AI to create music from live painting, in real time and unique for each performance. Painting Music uses algorithms that are explainable, which is innovative even in the field of AI, and the combination of AI, painting and music represents to the best of our knowledge a world’s first. Painting Music uses storytelling through creative tools centered around the question Is AI good or bad? This multifaceted production encompasses a dynamic, interactive, and experimental form of art-making, an artists’ panel session and Q&A opportunity for the audience.
Running Order:
- 20-minute performance, followed by approx. 20 minutes of Q&A and discussion.
You can use Kate's Painting Music programme yourself in Gallery Three, Pathfoot Building.