artist in the loop [RECURSIVE SELF PORTRAITS #0-2]

artist-in-the-loop

entries #0, #1, and (planned) #2 in the recursive self portrait series
by shm garanganao almeda

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original text description of the piece
Figure 1
fig. 1

this is a performance art piece, wherein a human artist performs the following:

  1. look at your self, and produce a painting of what you see.
  2. WHILE YOU COMPLETE STEP 1:
    1. have a vision machine look at your self, and produce an image representation of what it sees.
    2. give the image to an image-to-text machine, and ask it to produce a text representation of what it sees
    3. give that text to a text-to-image machine, and ask it to produce an image of what it describes.
    4. repeat

this instance of the piece is complete when step 1 is complete.

responses

During the performance, we made a questionnaire available (as physical paper cards that participants could fill out, and as a digital form they could submit from the gallery page.) It had the following multiple choice questions, and a free response section. Here are the results.

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