Interactive Installation

Step into the GANthropocene—a new kind of video game.

Your spacecraft has been knocked out of orbit and into the next era—the GANthropocene. Now you’re lost in a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and with only the controls you have in front of you, you must navigate your way back to your destination before time runs out. Machine learning is on your side. 

Workshop to Accompany Inference: Inference Engine: Exploring the GANc

Exploring the GANthropocene is a hands-on workshop from Grayson Earle that introduces the basics of utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks. Students will learn about how GANs work and then utilize a pre-trained Generator to produce new images and videos. Topics include: an introduction to neural networks; creative projects that utilize GANs; how Generative Adversarial Networks function; latent space; training a GAN (this will not happen from scratch due to time constraints, but students will be able to try this later on their own); using “inference” to generate new images; and creating videos that “walk” through the latent space of a GAN model.