DSC160 Data Science and the Arts - Final Project - Generative Arts - Spring 2020

Project Team Members:

• Firstname Lastname1, [email protected]
• Firstname Lastname2, [email protected]
• Firstname Lastname3, [email protected]
• Firstname Lastname4, [email protected]
• Firstname Lastname5, [email protected]

(10 points)

For the project proposal, please write a short abstact addressing the questions below. You need to replace the entire contents of this section with one to two paragraphs addressing the following:

• What is your concept for a generative art project?
• What methods/networks/techniques will you employ (include links to technical precedents/code bases)
• What training data (if any) will you use for your project?
• What kind of results do you hope that your system will produce?
• How will you present your result/what form will your output take?
• What if any challenges to you think may arise as you are working with this?
• How are you expanding on topics we have covered in class?
• Why is it interesting? (personally, culturally, politically, other)
• List three papers / art projects that are references for this work.

(10 points)

In the final submission, this section will describe both the data you use for this project and any pre-existing models/neural nets. For each you should provide the name, a textual description, and a link. If there is a paper (for neural net) link that as well.

• Such and such Neural Net. The short description of this neural net.
  • link to code.
  • Title of Paper with Link.
• Training data. Short description of training data including bibliographic info. link to data.

(20 points)

This section will link to the various code for your project (stored within this repository). Your code should be executable on datahub, should we choose to replicate your result. This includes code for:

• code for data acquisition/scraping
• code for preprocessing
• training code (if appropriate)
• generative methods

Link each of these items to your .ipynb or .py files within this seection, and provide a brief explanation of what the code does. Reading this section we should have a sense of how to run your code.

(30 points)

This section should summarize your results and will embed links to documentation to significant outputs. This should document both process and show artistic results. This can include figures, sound files, videos, bitmaps, as appropriate to your generative art idea. Each result should include a brief textual description, and all should be listed below:

• image files (.jpg, .png or whatever else is appropriate)
• audio files (.wav, .mp3)
• written text as .pdf

(30 points, three to five paragraphs)

The first paragraph should be a short summary describing your results.

The subsequent paragraphs could address questions including:

• Why is this culturally innovative?
• How does your generative computational approach differ from traditional art/music/cultural production?
• How do your results relate to broader social, cultural, economic political, etc., issues?
• What are the ethical concerns for this form of generative art?
• In what future directions could you expand this work?

Provide an account of individual members and their efforts/contributions to the specific tasks you accomplished.

Any implementation details or notes we need to repeat your work.

• Additional libraries you are using for this project
• Does this code require other pip packages, software, etc?
• Does this code need to run on some other (non-datahub) platform? (CoLab, etc.)

All references to papers, techniques, previous work, repositories you used should be collected at the bottom:

• Papers
• Repositories
• Blog posts