portrait xo
wire
Recently premiered at SXSW and California – Portrait XO performs ‘WIRE’ – AI generated audiovisuals featuring her latest research in creative AI. As part of her artist residency at Factory Berlin x Sonar+D completed in 2020, she collaborated with Dadabots to train 1 hour of her singing vocals with a custom SampleRNN model. From the 10 hours of new audio that was generated by machine learning, the process of experiments in songwriting and producing gave birth to a new process they call ‘neural vocal duet’.
The performance will be a journey of how Portrait XO co-wrote lyrics and melodies with her other AI generated self, supported by a production she made to support the glitchy and morphing sounds. Visually, we are immersed in her experiments combining different AI models to use sounds and text-to-image CLIP guided VQGAN to manipulate latent space for dynamic audiovisuals.
bio
Portrait XO (she/they) is an award winning independent researcher and artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods. In collaboration with Dadabots, they won ‘Best Experiment’ award at VUT Indie Awards 2021, Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’ in 2020. Her development into AI audiovisual art evolved through several artist residencies from NEW NOW FESTIVAL and BBA Gallery in 2021, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020.
She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound. She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO) on Refuge Worldwide Radio, is growing a community of hybrid artists at SOUND OBSESSED, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists).
portrait xo
wire
Photo © Dan Gorelick
Tuesday | SEPtember 27, 2022 | 19:30
Rabbit Hole Theater Essen