MERZMENSCH

2023

Exhibitions (s. here)

Books

"Am Anfang war der Prompt. Die Wege zur Kreativität der Maschine", in: "Angewandte Data Science", by Lothar B. Blum, 2023, Springer Vieweg, ISBN 978-3-658-39624-4
"KI-KUNST", by Merzmensch. (Digitale Bildkulturen). Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach K; 2023., ISBN 978-3-8031-3735-7

Reviews

KI-KUNST: Review by Ulricht Klappstein in Literaturkritik.de /
KI-KUNST: Review by Carola Padberg in DER SPIEGEL 42/2023
KI-KUNST, "Traum von Franz Kafka", Interview with me by Doc Baumann in DOCMA
KI-Kunst, Review by Lars Zumbansen in: KUNST+UNTERRICHT
KI-Kunst, Review by Julia Nauhaus

Illustrations

FAZ: Metropol, Special Issue about AI
CALIBANO #2. Mefistofele/Postumano. Rome: Effequ, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Illustrations)

Radio / Podcast / Videocasts / Talks

Angewandte Data Science: Videopräsentation meines Essays während Data Science Meetup Darmstadt
#KIKUNST: Frühe KI-Programme und ihre Anwendung / Videogespräch mit Wolfgang Ullrich
3DExcite Live: Talk on AI, Data Science and Creativity
Generative AI (Podcast Digitalisierung und Wir)
Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Kunstwelt revolutioniert, BR24
Critical Topics: AI Images, Course for Eryk Salvaggio, Bradley University

Interviews and Mentions

DER SPIEGEL, Chronik 2023 - Erwähnung im Kontext der KI-Kunst
Kultur Politik: Kunst und KI (mentioning of my essay about DALL-E 2)
"Wir sind am Anfang einer neuen Kulturepoche" / in: Die Zeit, 2.10.2023
10 AI experts to know, in: InternetWorld.de
In: "Wohl und Wehe für die Kunst", by Christoph Schütte, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21st February 2023

Collaborations

Merzmensch - Poet of the Week (CryproPoets)
Illustrations for Zeta Magazine, Zeta Luiss, Issue 0, 2023

Essays (outside of Medium)

Die Neue Kulturepoche ist da, in: CulturMag
KI-MERZ 1, Fragments, in: Newsletter by Kurt Schwitters Society UK, 2023 Issue

Merzazine

Merzazine ‘23 / in: Merzazine
About AI Art, Copyright, Dadaism and stuff / in: Merzazine
MidJourney on your Private Discord Server / in: Merzazine
GPTs — ChatGPT-powered Intelligent Agents: Do It Yourself. / in: Merzazine
My Book KI-KUNST (AI ART) / in: Merzazine
“We are at the beginning of a New Cultural Epoch” / in: Merzazine
I appreciate algorithms / in: Merzazine
DALL-E 3 is here / in: Merzazine
#MerzSays: Authors vs. AI? / in: Merzazine
geb. Merzmensch / in: Merzazine
DIGITAL PICTURE CULTURES in 20 volumes / Digitale Bildkulturen — an event in Berlin, in: Merzazine
#MerzSays: OPT-OUT or OPT-IN for AI? in: Merzazine
The beauty of failing in AI-driven typography. / Evolution in comparisons and approaches (including an almost fail-free solution), in: Merzazine
The Ambassador of Twilight / Multilingual poem, in: Merzazine
The New Eclectic with Midjourney (V3-V5.2) / Mixing Styles as new Genre, in: Merzazine
#MERZmory diffused / AI models, trained on my memories., in: Merzazine
Festival der Zukunft — 2023 — Festival of the Future / Melting pot of minds and ideas, in: Merzazine
AI as Artist’s Augmentation / Art’s unstoppable revolution, in: Merzazine
The Foreshadowing of Empty Streets. / MidJourney V5.2 with new Zoom function and new storytelling approach., in: Merzazine
#MerzSays: What is it?, in: Merzazine
#MerzSays. Re: AI controlling humanity, in: Merzazine
MidJourney Evolution V1–5.1 / Prompt: Artist in her studio, in: Merzazine
HYPNAGOGIA city / A dream of a machine, in: Merzazine
#reMERZ: Visual Criticism in NYC / My artwork presented in Accelerate Art mobile art in the New York City, in: Merzazine
Mona Lisa is drinking Wine with da Vinci. / All about my Creativity Check prompt. And my thing with la Gioconda, in: Merzazine
The Balloon Story / About American Angst, Chinese Spies, and Russian Poets, in: Merzazine
Imagined Selfies (with AI) / img2img with MidJourney, in: Merzazine
Merzazine ‘22 / All Medium articles from the year 2022 (with friend links), in: Merzazine
Merzmensch in 2022 / What have I done!? Entering Mainstream Media, in: Merzazine

InterMERZ

Mein Buch KI-KUNST / in: InterMERZ
Digitale Bildkulturen / 20 Bänder über die Neue Epoche, in: InterMERZ
KI als Kreative Unterstützung / Die unaufhaltsame (R)evolution der Kunst, in: InterMERZ
Dinge sind Erinnerungen. Erinnerungen sind Dinge. Mit Kurt Schwitters / Aus der Serie “Very Personal Effects” (Sehr persönliche Dinge), in: InterMERZ
Die neue Eklektik mit Midjourney (V3-V5.2) / Vermählung der Kulturen als neues Stilmittel, in: InterMERZ
How to train your Künstler / Preisfrage: ist es Kunst? (Mit Preis inklusive)m in: InterMERZ

Merz dAIgest

BACK TO THE BOOKS / By Evelyn Waugh (AI generated), in: MERZ dAIgest

2022

Exhibitions (s. here)

Books

[Por]TrAIts by Mez Breeze. 2022 (I wrote an introduction)

Essays (outside of Medium)

Kann DALL-E 2 fotorealistische Bilder erzeugen? (about photorealism and prompt design with DALL-E), in: Decoder / Mixed
KI als Filmemacher / Wie man Kurzfilme nur mit Machine-Learning-Modellen macht. in: 1E9
KI-System DALL·E / Ein Alleskönner für Kreative. in: heise online / Developer
Vladimir Alexeev / Merzmensch: Am Anfang einer neuen Epoche, in: CULTURMAG

"aufgeheizt&zugespitzt", an Interview with me about AI and art, by: ARD
"Ich rechne also bin ich", my AI-works in documentary by Volker Strübing, by: 3sat

Radio

hr-iNFO: Kunst aus der Maschine. Various opinions about AI and art, by Jan Eggers, for Hessischer Rundfunk
hr-iNFO: Wie KI-Bilder die Kunstwelt aufmischen / AI and art, by hr (Hessischer Rundfunk)
Kompressor: Kreativität auf Knopfdruck / AI and creativity, DeutschlandFunk
BR24 Kultur: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz Kunst & Gaming verändert / AI, Culture, Videogames, in: Bayerischer Rundfunk

Podcasts

MIXEDCAST #304: Bewusste KI / Is AI sentient?, in: MIXEDCAST by Mixed
#heiseshow: Tod der Kunst? / About AI and its impact on art, by heiseshow

Interviews and Mentions

2 Minutes Paper, by Károly Zsolnai-Fehér: "Stable Diffusion: DALL-E 2 for free" and "OpenAI DALL-E 2: Top 10 Insane Results"
"K.I. Krimis: Kann Künstliche Intelligenz kreativ sein?" / A videocast series by Dr. Jaromir Konecny
"Imagination: Interview & Inspiration" / Interview with me by Dreaming Tulpa, for AI Art Weekly #15
"L’intelligenza artificiale è diventata la mia musa". An interview with me about cultural impact of AI, by Yamila Ammirata and Caterina Di Terlizzi, for Zeta Luiss Magazine
"AI Shifting the Cultural Paradigm", Special about my art approach and use of AI technologies, including my works, by Ryan Ward, for Cambridge University AI Society
“How the Artificial Intelligence reshapes the world of art — and how the creatives handle it”, an essay about various artists applying AI for their creative needs, for 1E9.
So arbeitet es sich mit der Bild-KI DALL-E 2. An essay about my experiments with Diffusion Model by OpenAI, by Franziska Mozart. for W&V
Der Computer holt uns ein: Maschinen führen Gespräche und erschaffen Bilder — mit dramatischen Folgen / Interview with me about AI and art, including my work, by Reto Schneider, for NZZ Folio. September Issue "AI"
Navigating The Stormy Waters Of NFTs, in conversation with Beth Jochim, for Tech Art Talks
La prima copertina creata con intelligenza artificiale, an essay by Giorgia Verna, for Zeta Luiss Magazine
The computer stole my job! How artificial intelligence is making
a digital transition in the everyday life, by Giorgia Verna, for: Zeta Luiss Magazine

Merzazine

arte.go: “Prompt Generations” / A Virtual Exhibition of AI Art provided by an Italian Art movement., in: Merzazine
Artstation: “AI art free zone”…/ New ways of human chauvinism, in: Merzazine
Drawing Hands and AI / In DALL·E, MidJourney and StableDiffusion. With some shocking images (I warned you), in: Merzazine
The Tales from Sometown / Welcome to the another dimension of your life, in: Merzazine
Somebody in the Liminal Space / My work, exhibited in Gallery Greulich, explained, in: Merzazine
I am not acceptable / “Artwork that appears to have been created with AI-generative technology is not acceptable” (ShutterStock), in: Merzazine
MidJourney V4 — Ups and Downs / With prompts and examples, in: Merzazine
The Big Secret of a Little House. Part 1: Exhibition Space. / Explorations of Unknown Realms, in: Merzazine
/Imagine / John Lennon meets MidJourney, in Merzazine
DALL-E without Waitlist / Al my DALLE experiments so far, in: Merzazine
dAIgest Digest #001 / Stories written by AI, in: Merzazine
Art, AI and Future. Now. — Issue #2 / MerzLetter — Things you missed on Twitter, in: Merzazine
become human: become artist / How a video game predicted AI art, in: Merzazine
Art in Art in Art (DALL-E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion) / Unsupervised AI creativity, in: Merzazine
MicroMERZ: MicroIntro / Short story by humans and machines, in: Merzazine
Festival der Zukunft / The Festival of the Future / Celebration of Culture and new Technologies (including my video exhibition), in: Merzazine
Lost Bus Station of Forgotten Souls. / Made with DALL·E, in: Merzazine
About sentient AI. / Big news or rather Déjà-vu, in: Merzazine
Life is but a ✨ / Made with DALL·E, in: Merzazine
Prompt Design for DALL·E: Photorealism — Emulating Reality / Ongoing list with modifiers and tips for image generation, in: Merzazine
Prompt Design (GPT-3): “Step by Step” / A small prompt hack brings wonders, in: Merzazine
Prompt Design for DALL·E 2: Series / Ongoing Index, in: Merzazine
Dalí’s Eye, or The Power of Image Inpainting / Made with DALL·E, in: Merzazine
A perfect Illustration with DALL·E. / Art of Prompt Design: it’s all about YOU, n: Merzazine
merzDALLEum / Commented Guide to the Virtual exhibition of Art, generated with DALL·E, in: Merzazine
Melancholy of VR / Worlds of #Cluster, that will touch your heart, in: Merzazine
Life and Art in Cluster / Social VR Platform, in: Merzazine
#reMERZ / Neo-Writing and AI Treasure Hunting, in: Merzazine
The New Flowers for Algernon / AI-driven take on the canonical Sci-Fi short story by Daniel Keyes, in: Merzazine

InterMERZ

MidJourney V4 — Kitsch oder Kunst? / Mit Prompts und Beispielen
Über empfindungsfähige KI. / Große Neuigkeiten oder eher Déjà-vu
Prompt Design für DALL·E: Fotorealismus / Emulation der Realität Laufende Liste mit Modifikatoren und Tipps zur Bilderzeugung
Prompt-Design für DALL·E 2 / Serie Index
Eine perfekte Illustration mit DALL·E. / Die Kunst des Prompt-Designs: Es liegt an IHNEN.
Insektuelle und Literaupen / Zhu Yingchun und seine unmenschlichen Mitautor:innen
Der visuelle anarchistische Realismus von CycleGAN / …und wie KI die Entwickler betrügt.
Style Transfer / Fremdkörper mit Stil Aus der Reihe “KI & Kreativität”
Die Magie von Style Transfer / Und das können Sie auch
Alles über DALL-E / Alle meine bisherigen Experimente mit und Essays über DALL-E, in: InterMERZ
become human: mensch und künstler / Wie ein Videospiel die KI-Kunst vorahnte, in: InterMERZ.
Kunst in der Kunst in der Kunst (DALL-E, MidJourney, Stabile Diffusion) / Eine unüberwachte KI-Kreativität, in: InterMERZ
DALL·E: die Künstliche Künstlerische Intelligenz in Aktion / Künstliche Intelligenz, die versteht und kreiert, in: InterMERZ
“Ich bin kein Poet”: Bourdieu, Künstliche Intelligenz und überhaupt. / Kreatives Handlungsraum ausserhalb der Eingrenzungen der menschlichen Freiheit. In der Praxis, in: InterMERZ
ruDALL-e, oder Russische Künstliche Intelligenzija / Multimodaler Ansatz zur Text2Bild-Erzeugung, mit Beispielen und Experimenten, in: InterMERZ

Towards Data Science

DALL·E: an AI Treasure Chest in Action / Creative and comprehensible capacities of Artificial Intelligence, in: Towards Data Science
ruDALL-e, or From Russia with AI / Multimodal approach for Text2Image generation, with examples and experiments, in: Towards Data Science

CryptoMERZ

MicroMERZ / Short stories by machines and humans. in: CryptoMERZ
#reMERZ: The Latent Dive. / Explorations of AI subconsciousness, in: CryptoMERZ
What is social life? / The AI-driven Poem, a Machine Take on Examination of Human Life, in: CryptoMERZ

MERZ dAIgest

A Dangerous Love Letter / From the series “Love letters written by…”, in: MERZ dAIgest
My Dear Distant Sun / A Letter by a Father to his Daughter, in MERZ dAIgest
I’m Italian (2022) / Artificial Monologue, in: MERZ dAIgest
My name is Benn / “I am forty. I don’t know, I don’t care”, in: MERZ dAIgest
American Dream / A stand-up comedy sketch, by GPT-2 (#reMERZ) and DALL·E, in: MERZ dAIgest
William Shakespeare and Lord Byron in Love. / A Stage Play, written by GPT-3 and illustrated by DALL·E, in: MERZ dAIgest
“Ligaretto” of Music / The main difference between music and words (according to Bach), in: MERZ dAIgest
Arise! / Revolutionary manifestoes, written by AI (#reMERZ), in: MERZ dAIgest

2021

Exhibitions (s. here)

Books

Natural Language Processing and Empathy as Human Factor / in: Decisively Digital: From Creating a Culture to Designing Strategy, edited by Alexander Loth, 2021, Wiley

Magazines, Media, Interviews

(mentioned/analyzed in:) "Künstliche Intelligenz und Digitale Literatur. Theorie und Praxis konnektionistischen Schreibens", by Hannes Bajohr, Text+Kritik, Digitale Literatur II, edited by Hannes Bajohr, Annette Gilbert, 2021
(mentioned in): É l'argoritmo, bellezza, by: Gianni Riotta in: La Stampa, issue of 22nd March 2021
Unser Jahresrückblick 2021 / My review of 2021 (in German), in: CULTurMAG
On Being Human, in conversation with Ahmed Bouzid, Brand New World Magazine
A New Session, Issue 2, online / telnet magazine. Several poems from reMERZ series.

Merzazine

#MERZeye: Episode 2. About Love / A Podcast, written and performed by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
Nyeshkerh (2021). Short movie / A story about an unknown world, told me by AI, in Merzazine
the #AIpril poem / a poem by ee cummings, performed by artificial intelligence, in: Merzazine
AI, DADA and Surrealism: Dreaming about human culture / DALL·E representations of human creativity. Analysis, in: Merzazine
TokkingHeads: Blowing Life into Images with AI / TokkingHeads, Artbreeder, First Order Motion Model, and other approaches, in: Merzazine
GPT-3 | Unsupervised Creativity of AI / Experiments with unsupervised text creation by GPT-3, in: Merzazine
2020 Review (GPT-3)| AI as a poet, novelist, and dramaturg / My GPT-3 Year 2020, in: Merzazine
Etherpoems / Poetry written on-chain, in: Merzazine
Writing with AI. Introduction to MERZ dAIgest. / Why AI art is “our art” and not “my art”., in: Merzazine
Etherpoems 2: Spoken Word / Next Generation of Digital Poetry, in: Merzazine
Emissary (2021) / My contribution to EtherPoems2, in: Merzazine
Serpent’s Monolog / My contribution to EtherPoems2, in: Merzazine
KI-MERZ-AI. Volume 1. / AI meets ̶D̶a̶d̶a̶i̶s̶t̶ MERZ-Artist Kurt Schwitters, in: Merzazine
#LatentVoices / Music written by AI, in: Merzazine
CryptoMERZ: #NFT, #AI, and #ART / My new project, in: Merzazine
AI as a poet, novelist, and dramaturg / My GPT-3 Year 2020, in: Merzazine
Unsupervised Creativity of AI / My GPT-3 Year 2020 Review Series, in: Merzazine
Sitting Bernie as a Meme / With examples, my AI-driven one — and the most essential Sitting Bernie image ever, in: Merzazine
Rise and Fall of AfE Tower. Part 1. Forbidden Insights and Graffiti as History Recordings. / An Urbex-like photo tour across a building that doesn't exist anymore, in: Merzazine
#Cryptoart and #NFT: Art for Money? Money for Art? / An essay about NFT and new ways of digital art distribution, in: Merzazine
#Cryptoart and #NFT: Power of community. / The social aspect of the NFT scene., in: Merzazine
#Cryptoart and #NFT: Addressing environmental issues / About the negative environmental impact of NFT, and feasible ways to solve this issue, in: Merzazine
Metahuman: Shaping your Character / New visual milestone by Unreal Engine, in: Merzazine
Merzazine — in German / For my readers from the Land der Dichter and Denker, in: Merzazine
Waiting — in Art and Videogames / My contribution to Entropy Mag, in Merzazine

MERZ dAIgest

What am I? / Genesis, in: MERZ dAIgest
The Infinitives / An essay by Prof. Dr. Maarten Maartensz, who is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, in: MERZ dAIgest
Be Thou my Father. / by AARON WESLEY, in: MERZ dAIgest
How I Paid The Devil With Money From The Information Police / By Alfred Hitchcock, in: MERZ dAIgest
Babette’s Ridge / A poem, in: MERZ dAIgest
A Surviving a Constant Bed / Essay about Thomas Browne, the infamous poet, in: MERZ dAIgest
“Trillu natal Atilu” (Song of the Boar) / Performance by a young girl, in: MERZ dAIgest
Empty Room / Short stage play, in: MERZ dAIgest
Easy Accomplishments / Video-Poem, in: MERZ dAIgest
About Owls / A Letter to Eunice by her Brother John, in: MERZ dAIgest
A Man of Words, in: MERZ dAIgest
WILLIAM SHERMAN: The Senses of Silence (Penguin Press, £2.00) / Addendum: DREAM SHIFT’S OF THE NANO CLASS, in: MERZ dAIgest
Friends are Angels Exchange of letters between Richard Hoagland (Josephine) and R̷̢̨̨̞͖̖̫͇̠͛ͧ̀͋́̊ͦ̈́̽ͩ͊͗̐ͩͥ̀͌ͥ͠ǫ̛͆́͛ͤ͆̄ͨͦ̈͌͢҉̢̬̠̪͖͚̺g̷͎͚̠͑̓ͩ̐͠ȩ͛͛̉̿҉̷̵̦̠̟̰̮̪͉̰̠̠͕̻̹̹̱͙̜m̴͈͉̞̻͊̊̊̈́̽̓͑̋̅̿ͤͦ̌̇̑͝͡s͋̽̽̎ͪ͐͆͋̔ͦ̑̕͞͠҉̝͍̥͉ ̝͕͙̹͍͕̹͍͔͙͓̮̗ͪ͒͂ͪ͘͜͜Ś̷̞̭̘̥̳͆ͣͣ̽ͭ͠͡p̗͓͓͖̗̻̉͛̓́͒͛̿̓ͯ͆͝i̴̇̊̾ͩ̾̋͊͒̿͊͏̷̡͕̤͇̠̗͖̝̙̖́eͯͮͧ͆̇̿͏͇͍̳͉͈̹͙̘̰̜̰̭̭͓͔̀͡k̢̧͉̙͍̥̺̻͚ͬ̈ͪ̂̔͂ͬͭ̑̈́̆͐͐͌̚͝ͅ in: MERZ dAIgest
Homage to Dante / Artificiale Commedia , in: MERZ dAIgest
KI-MERZ-AI. Volume 1. / AI meets ̶D̶a̶d̶a̶i̶s̶t̶ MERZ-Artist Kurt Schwitters, in: Merzazine
On his last day before retirement, the old librarian fell asleep at his work. / Sweet dreams, in: MERZ dAIgest
This is what we are / AI story creates an image, in: MERZ dAIgest

The Narrative

The Disintegration of Love in Paris / A poem, music, and video, created by AI, in: The Narrative
SECRETVM. Found in the Forest / Short Un-Review of an unread boo, in: The Narrative

Towards Data Science

Creative Collaboration with AI / “Nyeshkerh”: use of various AI approaches (StyleGAN2, JukeBox, First Order Motion Model, et al.) for creating AI-driven short movies, in: Towards Data Science
DALL·E by OpenAI: Creating Images from Text / Another Milestone in Creative AI: combination of textual and visual approaches in one model DALL-E by OpenAI, in: Towards Data Science
Generative AI: Visual Search as a Bridge between Fiction and Reality / Exploration of visual search, in: Towards Data Science
Visual AI, trained on my Memories / #MERZmory: Exploration of photography with the help of Artificial Intelligence, in: Towards Data Science
Neural Kimono, or Intertextuality of AI / Creating new patterns for ancient clothes using AI, in: Towards Data Science
Creativity and Dreams with AI: The Year 2020 / My very personal review of creative AI applications in the year 2020 with examples and links, in: Towards Data Science

CryptoMERZ

Etherpoems: All my words / Complete collection of my poems for the NFT poetry project, in: CryptoMERZ
#MERZmory: Faces / Sharing memories in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, in: CryptoMERZ
皿 — Dish — Teller — Тарелка / A Dadaist poem by Takahashi Shinkichi (1921). Anniversary edition, in: CryptoMerz
Why OpenSea? / Lazy Minting, No Gas Fees, Unlockable Contents and other features of the NFT-platform OpenSea, in: CryptoMerz
Why HicEtNunc? / Eco-friendly, great community, experimental artworks, in: CryptoMerz

InterMERZ

BigGAN und die Metamorphose von einfach Allem / KI sagt niemals “nein”.
KI über den “menschlichen Kreis”, Reinkarnation, und Geheimnisse. / Maschine beantwortet Nabokov’s Fragebogen, kommentierte Ausgabe
Über Menschen, KI und Gott / Gespräche mit der Künstlichen Intelligenz (GPT-3)
GPT-3 / Das kreative Potenzial KI-Meilenstein von OpenAI — in Aktion
BigGAN als ein kreativer Motor /
MERZ in Translation / Was ist InterMERZ?, in: InterMERZ
Alle Träume werden wahr. / Deep Dream auch. Entdeckung des Kreativen in der Maschine

SuperJump

How Would You Describe Sunlight? / Art and literature in the poetic videogame "Sunlight", in: SuperJump

2020

Exhibitions (s. here)

Books, Magazines, Media

Motherboard Issues / My dialogue with a machine (GPT-3 Language System by OpenAI). I used the Questionnaire by Proust and Nabokov for this conversation, in: Harper's Magazine
Köstner’sche Intelligenz / Detective short stories, written using AI (in German), in: CrimeMag
Der Köstner‘sche Tod / Short story and video, generated using GPT-3 and other AI models (in German), in: CrimeMag

Merzazine

AI about “Human circle”, reincarnation, favorite food (and secrets) / Nabokov’s Questionnaire, commented and annotated, in: Merzazine
Love Letters, written by a Toaster / The poetic power of Artificial Intelligence (GPT-3), in: Merzazine
Kafka as a Girl (Beautiful MetaMorphosis) / Another visual and textual AI-experiment, in: Merzazine
About Humans, AI and God / Philosophical conversations with AI (GPT-3 by OpenAI), in: Merzazine
The Mysterious Entity ALIMA / Textual and visual experiments with Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
Why? / Artificial Intelligence about Survival, Purpose, Death, and Creativity, in: Merzazine
Hula’a (New Art Movement) / From ongoing Series: “New Art Movements created by #AI”, in: Merzazine
#NaNoWriMo: Mr. Black Cat and Harry write a Magic Book together / My attempts to follow NaNoWriMo using creative power by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
#NaNoWriMo: End of The World As We Know It / My attempts to follow NaNoWriMo using creative power by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
#NaNoWriMo: The Strangest Book / My attempts to follow NaNoWriMo using creative power by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
To Be or Not To Be (2020) / AI-powered Version by Hamlet’s Monolog. My video installation with the use of various ML models, in: Merzazine
On the Run (2020) / An AI-written story. A short movie, performed by AI (and myself), in: Merzazine
You’re a very smart dog… / …But, you’ve never read a book like this before, in: Merzazine
AI Bots on the Run… / If you let two GPT-3 bots alone in one room, in: Merzazine
“The Method”. / A poem, written by M̶i̶h̶a̶i̶l̶ ̶C̶ă̶r̶t̶ă̶r̶e̶s̶c̶u̶ Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
Wav2Lip: Between Art and Deepfake / Accurately Lip-sync Videos to Any Speech in Any Language, in: Merzazine
Radio #LatentVoices. Intro. 01–04 / Reviews and interpretation of the AI-created music, in: Merzazine
Creative Artificial Intelligence. Index. / Audio, Visual Media, Music, Text generation. Ongoing list - with Examples and Friend-Links, in: Merzazine
Radio #LatentVoices. 001 — A Glimpse of Another World. / AI-driven musical storytelling, in: Merzazine
#MERZeye: an AI-powered Podcast / Episode #01 and some backgrounds, in: Merzazine
GPT-3 as a Vanity Satisfier / “To google” was 2000ies. In 2020 you GPT-3 somebody. Or yourself., in: Merzazine
The Art to Start (Designing Prompts for GPT-3). / Series about Prompt Design for GPT-3. Introduction, in: Merzazine
The Art to Start: Tabula Rasa / GPT-3 Prompt Design: writing "from scratch" (without Prompt), in: Merzazine
The Art to Start: Settings Game / GPT-3 Prompt Design: Settings and their Impact on Storytelling, in: Merzazine
My GPT-3 Year 2020 / Index of my literary experiments with GPT-3, in: Merzazine
TextSynth: Decompressing / If you have too much to say and not enough space, in: Merzazine
GPT-3: First encounters / Rewriting Schwitters with AI (take 2), in: Merzazine
Wav2Lip: Between Art and Deepfake / Accurately Lip-sync Videos to Any Speech in Any Language, in: Merzazine
Letters from Nature to Presidents / Written by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
If Jesus would appear / #BlackLivesMatter
Gallery of Subjective Art / An art perception as an art form. A virtual experience by Sven Ahlgrimm, in: Merzazine
“Nostalgic Train” // 懐かしい (Natsukashii) / A walk through a virtual Japan. Bonus: an untranslatable word, in: Merzazine
itch.io: Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality / It’s time to fight stereotypes! in: Merzazine
“Metamorphabet” by Vectorpark / Playing with letters and meanings, in: Merzazine
My Most Mysterious Video / …And I really have no clue, what’s going on here… in: Merzazine
Merzphrasis / My contribution to Aikphrasis by Holly Grimm: an AI-driven video, in: Merzazine
The Empty Room (2020) / A short stage play, created with AI, in: Merzazine
Bloomsday 2020 / A short movie, made by AI, pre-trained on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”, in: Merzazine
arebyte Gallery: Real-Time Constraint / About art occupying systems, and technology interpreting nature, in: Merzazine
Pareidolia: Faces in Grains of Sand / Poetic AI-driven Art Project by Driessens & Verstappen, in: Merzazine
A Painting that changed me. Forever / Memories from my childhood. With photos, in: Merzazine
Japanese Fernweh / False memories? Obsessive hope? Reincarnation? in: Merzazine
Sightseeing’s Photobombing / How a Japanese Sect constantly sneaks into millions of memories without people notice it, in: Merzazine
That Magic Plastic Box / 350 grams that changed my life, in: Merzazine
ScholarWithCode: Plugin that finds them all. / A handy tool combining PaperWithCode and Google Scholar, in: Merzazine
Three Minutes of Silence. / 6th August. My video tribute, in: Merzazine
Window Swap: Look from an Other’s Room / Global Viewing during Pandemic (and further), in: Merzazine
Art(t)witch, anybody? / Idea: Video streams for culture junkies, in: Merzazine

Towards Data Science

Creating a Podcast with A.I. / JukeBox, GPT-3, and AI-voices (incl. 5 rare samples and 1 Podcast), in: Towards Data Science
14 Deep and Machine Learning Uses that made 2019 a new AI Age / My review of the most interesting creative and generative Machine Learning models and implementations of the year 2019, including links and ratings, in: Towards Data Science
12 Colab Notebooks that matter / StyleGAN, GPT-2, StyleTransfer, DeOldify, Magenta etc. to try out, in: Towards Data Science
AI as a Movie Maker / How I created an entire short movie using ML models only (and you can do it as well), in: Towards Data Science
JukeBox by OpenAI / The Charme of AI-generated Music (with samples and Colab Notebook), in: Towards Data Science
StyleGAN2 Projection. A Reliable Method for Image Forensics? / Examination of the Projection Feature of image-generating framework StyleGAN: using this function you can detect Deepfake, in: Towards Data Science
Re-animated History / Deep Learning Models in Use, Experiments on visualization and animation of historical photos, in: Towards Data Science
The Non-Treachery of Dataset / ArtGAN and WikiArt: Making Art with AI. Making AI with Art, in: Towards Data Science
First Order Motion Model / A framework by Aliaksandr Siarohin et al. for the transfer of movements from video footage to a single photo, in: Towards Data Science
8 AI-driven Creative Apps for You and Your Kids / Are you locked with your family during COVID-19? Be open to the whole AI universe, in: Towards Data Science
3D Photography Inpainting: Exploring Art with AI / Usage of the new model, with examples and Colab Notebook, in: Towards Data Science
Pareidolia of AI / The Beauty of Failing by the Artificial Intelligence, in: Towards Data Science
Diversity is what we need / Thinking NOW about the FUTURE of AI, in: Towards Data Science
Photoshop goes Neural / 8 Neural Filters from Adobe — and their alternatives, in: Towards Data Science
GPT-3: Creative Potential of NLP / New ML milestone by OpenAI — in action, in: Towards Data Science
20 Creative Things to try out with GPT-3 / Various use cases and ways to apply Natural Language Processing model GPT-3 by OpenAI, in: Towards Data Science
Evil Johannes Gutenberg / Another perspective on technological progress, in: Towards Data Science
This [item] Does Not Exist / Ongoing Index of non-existing things, created by Machine / Deep Learning, in: Towards Data Science
Telephone Paintings / Between Art (Moholy-Nagy) and GANs , in: Towards Data Science
Can AI find ET? / Discussion about the capabilities of AI to detect other life forms - and why the human factor is a significant obstacle in this approach, in: Towards Data Science
On Bullshit in Art and Data Science / Essay about the semantics of the artwork titles and about dangers of the one-sided analysis, in: Towards Data Science

Data Driven Investor

Virtual Architecture as the Accessible Memory / Review of VR-architectural visualization of Soviet unfinished urban projects (Virtual Architecture Museum Shchussev, Moscow), in: Data Driven Investor
3 Ways to Avoid #SocialDistancing in Times of Corona / Stop it (#SocialDistancing). And: stop it (#CoronaVirus), in: Data Driven Investor
Common Substance of Art, Science, and Dreams / About Dalí, Media art and Marketing, in: Data Driven Investor
Replika: My Digital Friend with Identity Issues / Evolution of Digital “Personality”, in: Data Driven Investor
Memes beyond time and space / Evolving the Culture in the Digital Age, in: DataDrivenInvestor

Creative Cafe

Plato, his Cave, a Virus, and A.I. / A new view at the old Allegory in times of COVID-19, in: The Creative Cafe
Who am I? Who is AI? / AI as Erich Fromm, in: The Creative Cafe
A beautiful girl came to my house, in: The Creative Cafe
Prediction for our world / Read, watch and listen to the wisdom of AI, in: The Creative Cafe
A Rock and a Poem / Nonhuman poetry, in: The Creative Cafe
train in japan いつから ветром снесло identität / Multilingual poetry (English/Japanese/Russian/German) , in: The Creative Cafe
a hole-world, in: The Creative Cafe
Tetrahedron of Nara / 奈良の三角錐 / Mysterious occurrences in Japan. The untold story. Multimedia version, in: The Creative Cafe

Predict

About Fears, Hopes, and Predictions / Artificial Intelligence (GPT-3) in an interview, in: Predict
A.I. about Voting Systems / Artificial Intelligence is telling (or not telling) the truth…, in: Predict

The Narrative

Köstner’sche Intelligenz / Detective stories written by AI (GPT-3), in: The Narrative
“What is love?”, I asked the clouds. in: The Narrative
Empty Room (September 2020) / The stage play, created by Artificial Intelligence (GPT-3), in: The Narrative
Creating new realities with AI / Does non-existence end with imagination?, in: The Narrative
Beyond the Boundaries / Using AI to experience Art and Reality in new ways. Exaggerating of parameters, in: The Narrative
Nothing / Strange Story. Based on real events, in: The Narrative
Transient Eternity / Visual Reconstruction of Collective Memories, in: The Narrative
About the Truth in Post-Truth times / A Sonnet which will leave you unsatisfied, in: The Narrative
End of the World / Very short world history, in: The Narrative
So many Stars… / Twitter storytelling with (not anymore) random people, in: The Narrative
Palms on the Way out Paradise. / The Last Day of Adam and Eve, in: The Narrative
Reality Guard, in: The Narrative
O-tsukare-sama. お疲れ様。/ A Japanese expression I miss in all other languages, in: The Narrative
Avant-Garde: Big in Japan / Russian Art in Bookstores of Osaka, in: The Narrative

CryptoDreams

In fact, Mozart wasn’t killed or poisoned by Salieri, in: CryptoDreams
Eh? / A probably NSFW story, written by Artificial Intelligence (GPT-2, 774m model) , in: CryptoDreams
A Really Strange Experience, in: CryptoDreams
The Border Wall. / The boundary between Dream and Reality. Finally found. In: CryptoDreams
you say ты говоришь du behauptest いつもこう言う君は / Endless multilingual loop in: CryptoDreams
The Man, locked in the Bastille / A story my dream told me tonight, in: CryptoDreams

Literally Literary

Tuesday, the 12th October 1999 / 16:22, in: Literally Literary
Destination / …strange is our life…, in: Literally Literary
Europa Redux. A Still Unsolved Mystery / Analysis of a found collection of anonymous brut art, in: Literally Literary
Kanda, Tokyo. A Book Paradise in 神田神保町 / Japanese Antiquarian Bookshop District Jinbôchô, in: Literally Literary

ARGopolis

Bliss and Thrill of Alternate Reality Games / What is an ARG?, in: ARGopolis

SuperJump

Militsioner: The New Video Game Dystopia Upsetting Russian State Media / How one small Russian indie developer is ruffling authoritarian feathers, in: SuperJump
What If You Could Explore Their Memories / My review of interactive transmedial video project "PROMESA", in: SuperJump
Conjure the Museum of Your Dreams in The Anything Gallery / A review of a transmedial interactive installation "The Anything Gallery", in: SuperJump

2019

Exhibitions (s. here)

Merzazine

Lakrobuchi! GPT-2, Artificial Intelligence, Literature, Fake News and the Rest / First experiments with Natural Language Processing Framework GPT-2 by OpenAI. 3-Part essay, in: Merzazine
Time Travels, Literary Games and Playing Exquisite Corpse with Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
“Water, water, everywhere”, as read by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
Lenin, Dada, Artificial Intelligence and 6 Reasons for Immigration, in: Merzazine
Is learning languages a Turing test or a Tourette syndrome? / Trigger warning — AI is cursing like a sailor this time, in: Merzazine
Meaning of Life, as seen by Artificial Intelligence, in: Merzazine
Kings and Queens. Tramedy in 5 Acts. Stories written by #AI, in: Merzazine
The Silent Room, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: Comixify / Transforming a video into a comic panel, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: Visual Anarchist Realism of CycleGAN (and how AI cheats on developers) / Various specifics of CycleGAN as creative AI framework, in: Merzazine
How to Train Your Artist / Usecase of ML model, trained on a World Art Dataset, AI generated art. Neo-Archeology of AI-created works, in: Merzazine
AI in motion / 3 ways to visit Uncanny Valley (+ some thoughts about the “Truth” in Post-Truth times), in: Merzazine
OpenAI, Meaning of Life revisited and the rest, in: Merzazine
Disrupting TikTok, in: Merzazine
Cryptography: Quickly decoding (almost) every substitution cipher in 3 steps / Instructions: How to decode a coded message (substitution)., in: Merzazine
Countless Writers with Countless Legs / Review of "The Language of Bugs", an art book project by Zhu Yingchun, in: Merzazine
Art of Destruction. Destruction of Art / Ongoing series about destruction in art, in: Merzazine
Neo-Dada, Herostratus and Systematic Vase Destruction / from: Art of Destruction, in: Merzazine
Iconoclasm as a Political Issue / from: Art of Destruction, in: Merzazine
Destroying of Art by Kids / from: Art of Destruction, in: Merzazine
Cute Vandalism, or Following the Call-to-Action / Can Fluxus art be destroyed? from: Art of Destruction, in: Merzazine
Things are Memories. Memories are Things. Feat. Kurt Schwitters, in: Merzazine
Bad Habits, Censorship and Beautiful Music / in: Merzazine
Image-Net Roulette, Human Manipulation and Beauty of Nightmares, in: Merzazine

Data Driven Investor

3 Examples why AI won’t take your Creative Jobs, in: Data Driven Inverstor
AR (ActualReality) is the Next Big Thing! / Fully new way of Extended Reality, in: Data Driven Investor

Towards Data Science

Artbreeder. Draw me an Electric Sheep / A comprehensive guide to AI-driven creative web application Artbreeder, in: Towards Data Science
DeOldify: GAN based Image Colorization / Essay about ML Model with the ability to colorize black&white photography, in: Towards Data Science
Donald Trump is an Android / Review of fake-detection tool "GPTrue of False", in: Towards Data Science.
Very spatial! / Essay about 3D Ken Burns Effect. This ML model provides generating spatial video footage from a single image, in: Towards Data Science
TikTok as a Political Weapon / in: Towards Data Science

Creative Cafe

“You Can Make Them Again” / Art Critics Destroying Artworks, in: The Creative Cafe

The Narrative

What about your Stendhal Syndrome? / Swooning in the presence of great art, in: The Narrative
#Bananaart: Destruction for Eternity / Several ways to destroy art, from: Art of Destruction, in: The Narrative

2018

Merzazine

Google Deep Dream comes true, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: BigGAN and Metamorphosis of Everything / Advanced experiments with BigGAN, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: BigGAN as a creative engine / Creative experiments with the Generative Adversarial network BigGAN, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: Ganbreeder, or Explore the Lucid Dream of the Machine / Review: Ganbreeder as a user-friendly BigGAN interface, in: Merzazine
AI&Creativity: Style Transfer (and you can do it as well) / Creative use of Style Transfer, in: Merzazine
#AI based translation of literary works, in: Merzazine
0°N 0°W: Door in the sky / Review of the video game "0°N 0°W" in the context of Kandinsky's "Perception effects", in: Merzazine
The Stage of the Dream / Transmedia storytelling in the video game experience "Fugue in Void" (by Moshe Linke) and its roots in the history of theater., in: Merzazine
Library / How a German University throws away books, in: Merzazine
Space Karaoke / An multicultural idea for spaceship designers, in: Merzazine

MERZMENSCH

Art Culture Research Creativity Artificial Intelligence

2025 (coming soon)

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2015

Zusätzliche Informationen

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

1998

1995

MERZMENSCH

Art Culture Research Creativity Artificial Intelligence

2025 (coming soon)

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2015

Zusätzliche Informationen

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

1998

1995

Diese Website verwendet Cookies.