Jo Ho presents “A Case of Generative Gore” at Y-Lab’s* “The Art of A.I” and is a beginning of something like a manifesto.

To start her artist talk, she gives an artist’s intro, and begins by presenting a “machinic” reading of her artist bio (partially influenced by text generated with GPT2) over ML-produced images of her along with all the slides she’s presented with recently.

Since beginning her artist journey back home in Singapore, she was giving quite a lot of artist’s talks and wanted to question the value of giving such talks and being recognized for a time as an “A.I. artist” by co-creating this talk with machine-learning. She also infused her artist talk with something like a manifesto, describing her budding thoughts at the time to explore “exposing the meat behind the machine”.

* Y-Lab is an initiative launched in 2020 by National Gallery Singapore to bring the integration of digital technologies into one of the largest museums in Southeast Asia.

Images and text co-produced by Jo Ho and machine-learning frameworks (GAN & GPT-2)