The lunch starts at 12:00, and the talk will start around 12:20.

NB: Wednesday BigInsight Lunches are open to staff and students from any of the BigInsight partners, including UiO, but not to others.

Speaker: Arturo Calvo, Responsible AI Lead at Accenture Interactive Norway; Founder of AImade.art.

Location: Spiseriet at Norsk Regnesentral.

Title: Generating art with Artificial Intelligence

A deep learning technique called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has revolutionized the creative industries. This is the technology behind the controversial FaceApp or the Deep Fakes. Researchers such as Robbie Barrat started exploring the possibility of using GANs to generate art by combining two neural networks that compete against each other in a zero-sum game framework. Arturo Calvo has adapted and combined two open-source algorithms and trained the models with 20.000 real oil paintings in order to generate new portrait, landscape and abstract artworks that he exhibits at AImade.art. In this talk, Arturo presents the technique, the different algorithms, his experience creating art with AI and the applications of GANs in the creative industry.