SUNSET
Creative Director
Partners
InterActML team at Goldsmiths University, Poetry by Priti Karim
Keywords
Community, Multicultural, Immersive, Gesture, Machine Learning
Brief
Residency to experiment with InteractML tool
Creative Process
Worked closely with InteractML Team led by Phoenix Perry on creating a controller (using Arduino) attached to the ankle (encased in a traditional Bengali ankle bells) - to be worn while dancing. The effect was that light and colour and other environmental factors of the VR scene changed with dance movements. Interactml, allowed me to develop a different process in building up the XR experience, for instance I could record my dance type movement which then calibrated the gyroscope parameters of the Arduino to different types of colours.
‘ Interactive Machine Learning Visual Scripting for Unity
InteractML brings machine learning visual scripting to Unity, empowering game creators to develop novel gameplay mechanics and control schemes without writing code. You can create ML models by joining nodes together and visualize in real-time the data from an Unity scene in the graph.
Interactive machine learning (IML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) research where users, generally non-experts, can quickly create and test ML models. These models can learn input/outputs from real-time data through human/computer examples (i.e. when the user moves his arms up-down the character swims upwards)’ ..
Other aspects I created or collaborated on were culturally significant from scans of my late mothers sarees to a poem created by my cousin in Bengali in style of Nobel poet Laureate Tagore one of the great Bangladeshis of all time.
SUNSET
By Priti Islam
Sun! You have set.
At the end of the day as you go to sleep
Your dying rays scratch at the sandy shore,
Like waves which rise to comb the beach
And bathe its grains of sand.
And still, your going down each day
Gives promise of a day to come.
I never crossed the water, never sailed the blue,Nor scanned the gull on his outstretching wings.
When you next dip under the sea, take me,
Take me, will you? Won't you take me?
Mood colours the mind with changing hues
And the tint of the clouds is changed by you anon.
Now I have seen
You, the sun submerged! The sun which has set!
The thickening glow of evening light
In the ruddy hour of dusk
Whispers in my ear like a lost moment:
“’Tis time, dear, time to return to your den!
No more of childhood’s song, an end to play.”
On a sandy shell-strewn shore I have danced with the waves. My garland of memories, pink with dreams,
I have dropped and left on the beach.
Ah, if time would stand still for a pause,
And I could halt my weary wandering,
I would stop, and you would stop as well,
And an end would come to the shattering of dreams. Were I to stop, at once,
Like the end of a day I would sink down below Into the endless night of my final repose. Sunk down with you, I would sleep,
I would sleep.
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