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## READ ### [Arns, Inke's Read_Me, Run_Me, Execute_Me: Software and its Discontents](http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/generative-tools/read_me/) ### Some quotes

*Software art seems to hint at software structures and code architectures normally hidden by surfaces or graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Software art thus points to what normally remains invisible: the program code and its performativity.* *Performativity of the code in this case refers to its ability to act and perform in the sense of speech act theory.* *This “coded performativity” has immediate, also political consequences on the actual and virtual spaces (amongst others, the Internet), in which we are increasingly moving and living: it means, ultimately, that this coded performativity *mobilises* or *immobilises* its users.* *The generative processes brought about by software here primarily do serve to avoid intentionality and to produce an unexpected, arbitrary and inexhaustible diversity of forms.* *insert_coin and walser.php go beyond such definitions of “generative art” or “design” in so far as these projects are interested far more in the coded processes generating certain results or surfaces...they develop “experimental software” (in insert_coin a proxy server and in walser.php a Perl script), which does not only generate arbitrary surfaces but which critically investigates the technological, cultural or social impact of software.* The changing of the concept of software art:
*While the computer art of the 60s and 70s regarding the processes in the computer only as a method for generating an external result, but not as a work in its own terms, and treated the computer as a sort of black box, thus concealing the operations and procedures going on inside it, today’s software projects precisely want to focus on these processes, make them visible and to bring them up for discussion.* It's not the first time I have thought about the concept of the performativity of the Code and the beauty of the generative, as it is raised in the second half of the article. The performativity in this context might refer to, in my understanding, how the code is used to perform certain actions, how these performances correlated with the topic/purpose of the work (how the technical system corresponds to the context of social, political, and/or other systems), and how strong the outcomes are. It is, indeed, a very interesting topic to think about and come back to in the future when we are making contextualised works. --- [insert_coin](http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/insert-coin/) by Dragan Espenschied and Alvar Freude
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\n### Rodley & Burrell's [On the Art of Writing with Data](https://rednoise.org/readings/WritingWithData.pdf)\n
\n*A sense of playfulness often pervades works of data-driven literature. The quality is especially noticeable in the recent rise of bots which harvest digital information then reconfigure and rebroadcast it.*\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":19,"value":"md`\n
\n## REVIEW\n# [Pix2Pix](https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/)\n
\nPix2Pix is a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN model, designed for general purpose **image-to-image** translation.\n![](https://miro.medium.com/max/1296/1*n8yWqMCT6TR895wNlK_pjw.png)\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":140,"value":"md`\n
\n## Protentials:\n\n- Sketch/edges -> photograph(ish)
[ml5 Pikachu example](https://editor.p5js.org/ml5/sketches/KLNpA01P26)\n\n- High-intensity images <-> low-intensity\n

\n\n- Image trasformation
\n![](https://miro.medium.com/max/896/1*dWd0lVTbnu80UZM641gCbw.gif)\n

\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":233,"value":"md`\n### Principle:\nThe Pix2Pix model is a type of conditional GAN, or cGAN, where the generation of the output image is conditional based on the input, and in this case, it is a source image. The discriminator is provided with a source image, and the target image; the model must determine whether the target is a plausible transformation of the source image.\n\nTrying to understand the logic...\n

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\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":67,"value":"md`\n## [Obama lips sync](https://github.com/karanvivekbhargava/obamanet/blob/master/README.md)\n\n\n![](https://github.com/karanvivekbhargava/obamanet/raw/master/results/raw_input.gif)\n![](https://github.com/karanvivekbhargava/obamanet/raw/master/results/video_input.gif)\n![](https://github.com/karanvivekbhargava/obamanet/raw/master/results/a2key.gif)\n![](https://github.com/karanvivekbhargava/obamanet/raw/master/results/key2im.gif)\n\n\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":39,"value":"md`\n
\n### Another interesting piece: [Invisible Cities](https://opendot.github.io/ml4a-invisible-cities/) \n(more info can be found [here](https://opendot.github.io/ml4a-invisible-cities/implementation/)).\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":197,"value":"md`\n
\n## An idea: \n**[Substrate](http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/) + city satellite pictures + pix2pix?**\n\nHit the New button and wait for seconds!\n\n

\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":213,"value":"md`\n## SUBMIT\n\n[To the work's main page](https://karliezhao.github.io/walktothesea_main/) (intro, screenshots and stuff)
\n[To the actual work](https://karliezhao.github.io/WalktotheSea/)\n`","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"}],"files":"$W34","stdlib":"1","titling":"auto"}} 32:"$31:body"