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Berlin-based artist Max Kreis recently spent two weeks on campus Belval as part of his Casino Display residency. His exchanges with researchers from the University of Luxembourg fed an artistic project dedicated to memory and relying heavily on artificial intelligence. On 23 October, a symposium<\/a> at Casino (14:00 – 18:00) will conclude this residency. It will be the occasion to present the first outcomes of his stay in Luxembourg and to gather artists and scientists once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nInviting artists on campus<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This residency is a collaboration between Casino Display<\/a> and the University of Luxembourg. As there is currently no art faculty in the country, the idea behind this new initiative is to bring artists on campus to facilitate exchanges with scientists. \u201cProgrammes like this one already exist in several scientific institutions such as CERN<\/a> and MIT<\/a>, and we know from experience that encounters between researchers and artists can be mutually beneficial,\u201d explains Anouk Wies<\/a>, strategic advisor for cultural affairs at the university. \u201cMax Kreis is the first artist staying on campus Belval as part of this collaboration and hopefully many others will join us for a residency in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nA first artist well-versed in science and technology<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For Max Kreis<\/a>, immersing himself in science is not exactly a brand-new experience. The young artist, who trained in IT before his art studies, has been working with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for the past six years. \u201cAfter studying light art and installations, I got hooked on AI and generative art as it combines several of my interests: art, science and technology,\u201d he recalls. His work is often based on scientific publications and some of his previous projects were done in collaborations with neuroscientists from Charit\u00e9 Berlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he enjoys using new technologies to turn science into striking visuals, Max Kreis felt right at home when joining the Imaging AI group led by Dr Andreas Husch at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB): \u201cThis was really a good match! We worked well together, I felt integrated into the team and their expertise in machine learning and neuroscience was extremely valuable.\u201d The experience was so positive that he hopes to keep working with the team on more long-term projects, bringing his own skills as an added value to scientific endeavours such as the development of a visual model for tumour growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional exchanges with researchers from the computer science department, social science professors and the team of the media centre gave him an overview of the expertise available at the university and contributed to shape his current project focusing on memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nThe brain, memories and generative art<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

His previous work already had strong connections with natural sciences, from AI-generated images of different classes of animals to 3D structures of speculative proteins that became sculptures, slowly leading up to this project on the plasticity of memory.

At present, Max Kreis is developing a neural network that, when fed with personal memories, generates fake ones. Trained on all the photos in Max\u2019s cell phone, the model can now not only produce hundreds of new images that resemble dream-like reminiscences from his past but can also create pictures based on a specific prompt and the information available in the database of Max\u2019s photos. In the next steps, the artist will work on refining the model further and will use shape reconstruction to combine the AI-generated fake memories with \u201cghost shapes\u201d extracted from the same database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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