Film Screening: nimiia cétiï, an Art and Machine Learning Project
summary
A 12 minute video installation uses machine learning to turn microscopic motion and old séance recordings into a new audible script. Footage of Bacillus subtilis movements is encoded by computer vision into a high-dimensional latent space and decoded into text, handwriting and synthetic speech trained on audio claimed to be Helene Smith’s Martian glossolalia. Built as a residency project in an arts lab with an artist-technologist and a lab lead, the pipeline successfully generates continuous, listenable utterances from biological motion.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Project introduction
- 1:07Jenna Sutela’s vision
- 3:36Machine learning exploration
- 5:04Bacillus subtilis protagonist
- 7:31Behind the scenes playback
- 7:53Artwork screening begins
