Ting Song
January 25, 2022 / Peony Dream: Falling in Love / AI-Human Collaborative Painting and Glass Prisms
Traditional Chinese poetry comes to life using AI as brushes, a digital canvas, and a virtual gallery
The Experience
This artwork, Peony Dream, is Inspired by the classic Chinese play, The Peony Pavilion. Using NVIDIA StyleGAN, Sha1 algorithm, and Omniverse Kaolin, Ting Song generates a unique cyber Peony to carry people’s secret love manifesto in hashes.
Ting cuts and “sews” the flowers digitally using Kaolin. These pieces are then made into physical glass art using pattern melting and casting . This lets the viewer discover the unseen hyper-dimension mystery of her colors.
Ting Museum is a digital adventure throughTing Song’s work–captured in a little virtual art building created with Omniverse. This lets every viewer enjoy their own immersive gallery experience.
花神, a virtual character in the Peony Dream AI-human collaborative drama, is now reading traditional Chinese poems written by AI and powered by Audio2face.
Ting Song created this art by hand using StyleGAN2 based on Attendant Bodhisattva, the 45th of Mogao Grottoes’s sketches. It comes to life with virtual “dust” using AR when scanned by a smart phone.
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The Process
About Ting Song
Ting Song is an AI artist and sci-fi writer. She’s the author of China’s first GAN-generated AI artwork sold by traditional art auction houses. Her 2020 individual exhibition “The Recyborg Cathedral and Bazaar” is China’s first-ever art exhibition featuring artwork created by algorithm and human.
Ting Song specializes in using AI technology to create artwork expressing her thoughts on info-tech philosophy, meta-being, and the tradition of Chinese ethnic arts. She has also worked with scientists and open-source projects to research labs in quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, and privacy computing from various countries. Her years of experience in open-source tech campaigns have shaped her influence on the community of developers.
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Meet the Omnivore
The AI artist brings traditional Chinese art to life using Adobe, Blender and Unity software—with NVIDIA Studio drivers and Omniverse apps.