29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2024) - EVERYWHEN
DiBlasi is presenting projects 432Hz and Transcoded Ecologies in the AI in Artistic Explorations paper session.
ISEA 2024 is taking place in Brisbane, Australia June 22 to 28, 2024.
In this paper DiBlasi discusses factors of artificial intelligence (AI) that affect approaches to the creative process in general and how these influence the relationships between creators, technologies, and the resulting works. This paper is an inquiry into how AI can serve as framework for practice in the arts as well as to explore some of the properties creative AI exhibited through its use in the author’s audio-visual performance and installation artworks. Specifically, this paper will ask the question, what is the language of AI in the artist’s own creative practice. He will explore this question as it relates to the artworks Transcoded Ecologies and 432Hz. 432Hz is a live, generative sound scape performance that utilizes the act of training artificial neural networks (ANN) to generate various soundwaves that evolve over time and fluctuate between the harmonic and the discordant. 432Hz is performed with a custom audio synthesizer is also a custom-built neural network that the performers train throughout the performance to learn to generate a combination of various sine wave frequencies. In this artwork, the AI model used serves as a model or framework for the aesthetics and structures of creative processes through the act of training or neuroevolution.
Tomorrows Exhibition
Installation TerraRete at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.
Tomorrows brings together artists and collectives how are responding to the societal and ecological uncertainties that lie ahead. The artists included in the exhibition work through a wide-range of sentiments and creative positions as to navigate the intersection of art and technology. They also delve into AI and virtual reality, reflecting on the destabilizing potential of new technologies and the allure of immersive environs. As environmental concerns take the spotlight, artists grapple with impending climate catastrophe through various media and different degrees of pessimism and activism. Tomorrows considers how today's artists engage with our swiftly changing world to contemplate how and where we go from here. The exhibition features new artworks by Eva Davidova, [phylum] (Bello Bello, Carlos Castellanos, Johnny DiBlasi), Jude Griebel, Eryk Salvaggio, and Sam Van Aken. .
Festival Internacional de la Imagen - INTER/SPECIES
Soundscape performances 432Hz and Dendritiformis (with [Phylum]) Selected to Produce for the Festival
Festival organized in Manizales, Colombia. Festival will be completely virtual on May 24 to 28, 2021.
432Hz is a live, generative sound scape performance that utilizes the act of training neural networks to generate various soundwaves that evolve over time and fluctuate between the harmonic and the discordant. The piece explores the aesthetics of sound and movement expressed as data in order to create an experience of this information into generative imagery and computer-generated sound waves. In the past, tuning pitches tended to vary widely before tuning was standardized and based on the 440 Hz frequency. Before this standardization, this pitch was expressed in lower frequencies, and for a time, composers promoted a scientific pitch based on 256 Hz or 432 Hz. 432Hz is an exploration of these tuning frequencies and how sound is expressed through these numerical relationships. The multimedia performance consists of generative imagery that evolves over time and mapped to computer generated sound waves. Various soundwaves or oscillators expressed by the computer through assignment of these numerical values, are layered and altered throughout the performance by a custom digital synthesizer created by the artist. The synthesizer is also a custom built neural network that the performer trains throughout the performance to learn to generate a combination of various sine wave frequencies.
Fulbright US Scholar Award: 2020-2021
Fulbright Austria - Q21 Museums Quartier Artist in Residence Award for Project Transcoded Ecologies
In the Museums Quartier Artists Studios from March to May 2021.
The Fulbright Scholars Austria award is specific to give artists who work with contemporary media across various creative fields a unique opportunity to work in residence at MuseumsQuartier Wein. MQ is located in central Vienna and encompasses 60 cultural institutions and a large hub for culture and arts in Austria. The award includes studio space within Q21, an organization that provides work spaces for creatives within MQ. During the Fulbright award period, DiBlasi will research and develop technology and a new artwork that explores the specific natural environments in the forests around Vienna.
Transcoded Ecologies is a creative project that investigates areas of biodata, digital networks, and computer-generated sound and light. These broad topics will be addressed through experimentation and production of a new artwork as well as the technology that makes the work possible. The proposed project will involve the development and the installation of an artwork that uses biosensors to gather data and translate it various forms of audio and visual output. The project explores the aesthetics of data and of the site’s electronic infrastructure in order to create an expression of this information into generative light and sound.
