Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Transdisciplinary Artist and Designer
Linda Dounia Rebeiz is a Senegalese transdisciplinary artist. Through her artistic practice, she questions and heals from the influence of power structures, explores experiences of pain, and imagines possible futures. Her artistic practice highlights the power structures that affect black women’s identities and bodies and determine their relationship to freedom. The artist uses several disciplines, including visual and digital art, poetry, and experimental music production.
Senegalese transdisciplinary artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz. She investigates painful memories, imagines alternative worlds, and examines and recovers from the effects of power systems via her artistic activity. Her creative approach draws attention to the ways in which black women’s identities, bodies, and relationships to freedom are shaped by the power systems that impact them. The artist works in a variety of media, such as digital and visual art, poetry, and experimental music creation. She is also one of the 20 board members of Artano, a newly established platform for cryptocurrency art.
2023
Generative adversarial networks (GANs), neural-net designs that enable Rebeiz to carefully train AI on her own datasets, are mostly used in her artistic creations. Rebeiz has photographed hundreds of photos of Senegalese flowers and old structures, scanned a large number of photos from national archives that had not yet been posted online, and created public datasets that anybody may use and expand upon. She has produced a number of visually arresting artworks using these new yet historical datasets, such as Once Upon a Flower, which imagines how people could interpret flowery imagery after real flowers have become extinct due to global warming.
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Meta AI has developed an algorithm that enables robots to learn and replicate human actions by watching YouTube videos. The researchers propose a visual affordance model using internet videos of human behavior, estimating where and how a human is likely to interact in a scene. This approach enables robots to perform complex tasks and generalize their knowledge, aligning with the vision of Artificial General Intelligence.
ChatGPT, a language model developed by Microsoft, has gained popularity for controlling drones and robots with advanced features. It can control devices by itself, enabling users to interact with them in natural language. ChatGPT is trained on a vast corpus of text and human interactions, generating coherent responses. Microsoft researchers have explored using ChatGPT to think beyond text and consider its actions’ impact on the physical world. However, developers must monitor their work for accuracy. ChatGPT-LangChain, developed by IBM, combines Alpha and GPT 3.5 for better AI assistants.
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Current obsessions that I am exploring visually:
🌻 flowers 🪜 stairs 🏠 home (what/where is it?) 🤳🏾 selfies (what/why are they?)
