White clouds in blue sky is a three-channel video installation by artist-anthropologists Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith in collaboration with artist and artificial intelligence scholar Steve DiPaola, edited by J Tseng and AI system support by Amineh Ahmadi Nejad.
The first video channel includes Henesey and Smith bringing chairs and mundane objects to an empty scene and constructing a sculpture that is covered up at the end by a white panel. Using DenseCap machine vision and description system, every frame of the video is captioned. The second channel of the video shows poetic texts representing descriptions of the video. The captions are visualized using GAN and CLIP systems to generate images representing the texts (third channel).
The soundtrack is yet another AI-generated response to the performance-initiated texts.
The soundtrack is yet another AI-generated response to the performance-initiated texts.
The premiere of the first iteration of this work was in February 2022 at the Surrey UrbanScreen, as a part of the program Body as Border, curated by Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda, Freya Zinovieff, and prOphecy Sun
