Nat Janin

This is probably the best concert photo I've ever taken. This mirror sculpture by Children of the Light looks ethereal behind Darkside.

#darkside #childrenofthelight #concertphotography #nicholasjaar #artinstallation

Playing more with #StableDiffusion (via StreamDiffusion) in #Touchdesigner and experimenting with how I can use it more as a highly customizable noise generator to drive my content versus leveraging the AI content directly.

CCA Research Case Study: The Forest The Forest was a Canada Council for the Arts sponsored inter-arts research grant exploring contradicting themes of hyper-connectivity and isolation in today’s…

This is a longer video but outlines my Canada Council for the Arts Research Project in collaboration with Ali Phi and Kirsten Edwards. The first steps to a larger performance.

#generativeAI #mediaart #interarts #canadianarts #touchdesigner

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As a Canadian, I don't think I have ever seen Canada both this united and this pissed off.

For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use:
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Glaciers sliding into the sea.
#mediaart #generativeart #touchdesigner

Powered by @blankensmithing.bsky.social's Mediapipe plugin for #touchdesigner this little voice and motion reactive forest keeps on giving. Looking forward to wrapping up the case study next month that outlines the larger research project. 🙏
#generative #mediaart

Nearly ten years on from it's publication in 2016, the parallels between the unsettling accuracy Turchin's Cliodyanmics and the fictional Seldon's Psychohistory are eerie to say the least. #cliodynamics #agesofdiscord #psychohistory (4/4)

Numbers often carry a misconception of being cold and unfeeling, but I think of it as a tool to focus our empathy. Rest is needed to energize one to action. Effective analysis is needed to action in the right direction when the clutter has been so intentionally placed to obfuscate the door. (3/4)

This modelling of macrohistories may give us a sense of our potential near futures. Of course, no one can tell you with certainty where we'll head, but when everything is hyper-charged and designed to distract us, math can be a method to hear the words in the all the noise. (2/4)

Last year, I was discussing Asimov's Foundation with my brother and how Hari Seldon's "Psychohistory" had inspired a to-be side project (one of those "I'll get to it one day" kind of things). This became my introduction to Cliodynamics; outlined by Peter Turchin in Ages of Discord. (1/4)

This modelling of macrohistories may give us a sense of our potential near futures. Of course, no one can tell you with certainty where we'll head, but when everything is hyper-charged and designed to distract us, math can be a method to hear the words in the all the noise. (2/4)

I spent a little too much time building some flexible systems in #touchdesigner so I could quickly swap out assets and input sources. It works great except I can stop fiddling with the knobs.

The curse of #mediaart.