A short film about darkness and hope.
Arguably the world’s first film constructed in and told entirely through the latent space of a Deep Neural Network, with meaningful human control over narrative. (See Deep Meditations for the second).
Latent Storytelling & Narrative
The work is also an exploration into the use of Deep Generative Neural Networks as a medium for creative expression and story telling with meaningful human control over narrative. While the explorations of these so-called ‘latent spaces’ in generative neural networks are typically random, here, precise journeys are carefully constructed in these high dimensional spaces to create a narrative.
I presented some of the techniques used for the creation of this work at the 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018 conference (one of the most prestigious academic conferences on artificial intelligence).
More information can be found here.
paper: https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/Deep_Meditations.pdf
code: https://github.com/memo/py-msa-kdenlive
Acknowledgements
Created during my PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the EPSRC.
Visual network is a ProGAN.
Audio network is bespoke, Grannma MagNet.