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      A Hundred Thousand Lousy Cats (exploring drawing, AI and creativity)

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      Politics of the Machines - Art and After (EVA Copenhagen)
      Digital arts and culture
      15 - 17 May 2018
      Creative rule sets, Machine learning, Associative drawing, Imagination versus algorithm, Surprise, Mistakes, Classification systems, Google Quick, Draw!, Watson movie trailer, Feminist data visualisation
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            This paper introduces a practice-led project that uses the Google Quick, Draw! project and dataset to explore the potential differences of algorithmic machine or digitally constructed drawings, and fictional associative hand-drawings. The authors use both digital 20-second sketching (the rule set for the Quick, Draw! Project) and more elaborate drawings and collages to then analyse and speculate about the results of these types of visualisations. At this phase of research it seems obvious to label and move the machine drawing to the reductive, the handdrawn to the more complex and associative realm but we seek to unpack this binary. Artificial intelligence and machine-learning are producing a wealth of creative projects, we select a couple of case studies to speak to particular visual artefacts that derive from algorithmic processing. For instance, the (IBM AI) Watson-composed film trailer for Morgan is considered as a creative artefact and looked at for its apparent allure and effect on a creative process. Through this inquiry we contemplate surprises and mistakes that come naturally when producing hand-made works, exploring then, what it means to draw and to work within classification systems in an algorithm-leaning world.

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            Conference
            May 2018
            May 2018
            : 1-9
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            [1 ] OCAD University

            OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
            [2 ] Independent Artist/Researcher

            Toronto, Canada
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.12
            3d127c71-b75c-4d83-9e35-528043c1196a
            © Rauch et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA Copenhagen 2018, Denmark

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Politics of the Machines - Art and After
            EVA Copenhagen
            7
            Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
            15 - 17 May 2018
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Digital arts and culture
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Creative rule sets,Machine learning,Associative drawing,Imagination versus algorithm,Surprise,Mistakes,Classification systems,Google Quick, Draw!,Watson movie trailer,Feminist data visualisation

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