For nearly six years, AI has been an integral part of London-based digital artist Dominic Harris’ artwork. He is about to put on his biggest exhibition ever.
“We use it for things like giving butterflies a sense of natural movement,” says Harris, whose typical canvas is an interactive computer display.
Using a rack of NVIDIA’s latest GPUs in his studio, Harris collaborates with a team of more than 20 designers, developers and other experts to create artwork such as: . can not see. Render a real-time collage of 13,000 butterflies. Some are fanciful, each unique, but none are real. Visitors can use gestures to make them flap and change their color.
The study brought together experts from natural history museums around the world. Many were fascinated by this way of helping people appreciate the beauty and fragility of nature by encouraging them to interact with creatures yet to be discovered or born.
“AI is a tool in my palette that supports the way I try to build compelling relationships,” he said.
An Artist’s Perspective on AI
Harris welcomes the public interest in generative AI that has emerged over the past year, but it comes as a surprise.
“It’s funny that AI in art is such a big topic. Even a year ago, if I told them AI was in my art, they would have looked dumbfounded. ” he says.
In the future, Harris said, AI will help creative people rather than replace them.
“Each time the performance of our NVIDIA products has improved, we have expanded what we can express and have been able to create more and more amazing and original artwork,” he said.
live stock exchange
Combining touchscreens, cameras and other sensors, he aims to create connections between his artworks and the people who see and interact with them.
for example, infinite Create an 8-foot interactive tower of gold blocks animated by a live data feed from the London Stock Exchange. Each block represents a company that shines or hurts due to an increase or decrease in its current valuation. Touching the tile reveals the face of the company’s CEO, a reminder that humans run the economy.
This is one work of eating consciousnessHarris’ largest exhibition to date opens on Thursday 25 May at the Halcyon Gallery in London.
launch invitation
“Before the show started, the screening was extended,” he said, showing an invitation sent to a small tablet full of video previews.
The NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics “has been prominent at events and has been a bit of a staple for me in a lot of my work,” he said.
After three years in the making, the new exhibition includes one work using 180 displays. It also features an immersive space created with 8 cameras, 4 laser rangefinders and 4 of his 4K video projectors.
“I like to build unique canvases to tell stories,” he said.
for example, Endurance It depicts the polar landscape that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition passed through in 1915 when the ship became trapped in ice off the Antarctic coast. All 28 survived, and the wreck was discovered last year while Harris was working on the piece.
“I was inspired by the forces of nature and the people I would have thought I was before the reversal of positions. I know how vulnerable I am to ,” he said.
Building software with Six
Harris started coding at the age of six. When his last project at architecture school, an immersive installation with virtual sound, won an award at University College London, it digitally set the stage for his career as an artist.
Along the way, “NVIDIA is the name I grew up with, graphics cards became part of my palette and I relied on it more and more. processing power,” he said.
For example, next month he will Every wing has a lining of hopea 16-meter-long piece displaying 30,000 x 2,000 pixels and made in part using a GeForce RTX 4090 GPU.
“We use top-of-the-line hardware to achieve an incredible level of detail,” he said.
He also shares that passion for school programs, providing children with templates they can use to draw butterflies, which they later bring to life on their website.
“It’s a way for kids to see and embrace art in technology,” he says, comparing it to NVIDIA Canvas, the digital drawing tool that his daughters, ages 6 and 12, love. He said.
of eating consciousness The exhibition, previewed in the video below, runs from May 25th to August 13th at the Halcyon Gallery in London.
