Ep 1: Agent Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative Process

Sam Leach joins the podcast to discuss his artistic work in his latest collection titled Fully Automatic, which featured at Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney in 2020. Sam excels as an artist by his own merit, but what if we pair him up with some machine learning? Dr Matthew McAuley from Belfast helped Sam implement algorithms from a DCGAN, (Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network) to automate the process of studying aesthetics through time. Sam's previous award-winning work also went into the mix allowing the AI to produce images which Sam painted resulting in a truly surreal outcome. This episode discusses the realities of working with AI as an artist and the future prospects of creative augmentation using machine learning.

See more of Sam's work on his Instagram, or check out his website.

This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, and Sia Furler Institute of the University of Adelaide.

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