Name: Derivative Aesthetics
Year: 2021-2022
Exhibitions & Showcases: Inverted Pyramid Series: intend to upend", GRUNNEMANN
Host: James Black Gallery, Usine106
Location(s): Vancouver BC, Montreal QC, Web
Description: Designed and built end-to-end AI content pipeline integrating automated data acquisition, large-scale model training, and real-time generative output. Visual datasets were ingested and structured using Eagle and Beautiful Soup, with fully automated normalization and augmentation via ImageMagick and Photoshop scripting. Over a three-month training cycle, more than 500,000 unique facial instances were generated using TensorFlow and PyTorch on various GPUs(P100, T4, V100), in Google Colab, with an emphasis on latent space diversity and feature disentanglement. The resulting models were deployed into an audio-driven generative video system, where sound analysis dynamically traversed latent vectors to produce evolving facial forms, revealing model characteristics through audiovisual transformations.
Team: Virgil Riviera, Dusko Sound