Video Response

Rebecca Fiebrink touches on some really interesting points regarding creativity using machine learning. The main focus that stood out to me was the way that AI could be used to assist the creative process and be used as a tool, rather than viewed as replacing the artist. In a world in which the threat of generative AI taking over creative roles is very real, this is an optimistic look at the situation. Fiebrink focuses on how AI is a tool which allows artist to push the boundaries of human creativity and work with sounds, patterns, and ideas familiar to what we know (because of datasets) yet surprising and new. And this just allows for so many different forms of expression than traditional mediums, which we can regard as an opportunity for creation rather than a detriment.

Project Idea

I’m planning to use the BodyPose model to create floral visuals so the resulting visual would look like a field of small flowers. I would find different types of flowers for each body part, probably a hydrangea for the head, smaller blossoms for each hand, and then blossoms for each leg, and I want the rotation of the flower to match the rotation of the arm/leg attached to the body part being tracked. The idea is that the resulting flowers continuously paint across the canvas to create what looks like a field of flowers.

An issue I’m already confused about is how to keep the webcam running in the background while all the dots are being drawn in front of the video. If I use the image(video) in the draw function, the video is continuously drawn over past flowers, and if I put the image(video) in the setup function, it doesn’t work. How can I put the webcam in the background and have it stay in the back?