In this video piece, (as the first instance of this series) i take a poem i wrote called ‘Creation’ and visually interpret it through the lens of the latent space of GAN. The larger idea is to create GAN Narrations, visualizing stories and poems through GANs, whereby, GANs help us to ‘tell all the truth, but tell it slant’ (Emily Dickinson of course)! Working on a few more.
The poem is essentially about the idea that Michaelangelo captures through his famous quote- ‘every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.’ This, i feel, holds very true in a lot of ways for creating art with AI too, where creative discovery from a huge space of learned machine knowledge and representation is often a large part of the art process.