Reimagining (28th Sep)

Today we at the art of reimaging art e.g. making a painting from a poem. I found this very interesting as a lot of things that we see and hear are just adaptations of other things/previous things, especially when it comes to art. E.g. A lot of modern Rap artists take there beats from old songs from the 80s and 70s and just modernize them, even to the point were they’re not recognizable.

Ian Cheng, September 2017, Emissaries In the Squad of Gods [Computer Game], Available at: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3656

Watched interview with Ian Cheng who talked about his simulations ‘Emissaries’ [1]. Which was a game about AI and how different AI react to each other. What I though was unique about his game was the fact that his AI were based off how people in set time periods would think about things e.g. In the tribal story part of his game the AI would have tribal like mind sets for example one of the villagers is obsessed with snakes and believes even in evident danger that the snakes would save them and that they were almost god like figures.

I think the idea of putting concepts like that into games is really interesting. Using the concepts like how the human brain has changed in its conceptual way to determine how the AI are going to react to certain things.

[1] Ian Cheng, September 2017, Emissaries[Computer Game], Available at: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3656

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