Snore
Personal Work
Type: Interactive Media, Installation, Sound Art, Sculpture
Medium: SDXL, Arduino, servo motor, clay, circuit, MadMapper, glitter, projector
Size: Projection 78 x 70 " (198.12 x 177.8 cm), Installation 5.9 x 6.2 x 3.9 " (15 x 16 x 10 cm)
Year: Sep - Oct 2023.
*Generative Arts made in generative AI workshop at Modu Lab, with artist Geon Hyuk, Choi
Sometimes snoring feels like a choir. It flows beyond expectation while forming a harmony.
It was a night when I went on a family trip and slept in the same room with my family after a very long time. As a night owl, I was the last one to fall asleep, and I noticed the sound of the family members snoring, realizing that there might be a certain pattern to their snores. One person would snore loudly, and then it would be followed by an irregular pattern of others snoring in unison. As the night went on, it started to sound like a sort of choir or orchestra of snores. When you create images by putting prompts in the Generative AI, all images are harmonized as a whole, but unexpected images often appear in the creative process. I thought this phenomenon is similar to snoring and made me create this installation.
Nose-shaped sculptures rotate irregularly, images created by AI pop up randomly, and recorded irregular snoring sounds harmonize with the overall experience.
Process
I recorded the sound of my family’s snore and made the snore track for my piece. Then, I created a typographic image that embodies the shape of a nose and used machine learning model to generate unexpected images on Colab. Using Arduino Servo motors, nose-shaped sculptures make movements while generating noise similar to snoring sound. During this process, I collaborated with the artist Choi Geon-Hyuk. This collaboration involved leveraging machine learning tools for creative image generation.
*Collaboration held on 11/28/23, at Modulab, Seoul, Korea.
Create a fragmented drawing on a canvas inspired by the sound of snoring that I heard, scan it and transfer it to the computer to process it into a black and white image using Photoshop.
Use ModernGL, process image with shader program.
Use Huggingface Diffusers library asset and use SDXL.
*Interference:
Although the nose-shaped pieces are programmed to rotate simultaneously, interference causes them to move at different speeds and patterns.
The irregular patterns of the rotating nose-shaped pieces synchronize with the irregularities inherent in snoring sounds and generative media art.
*Generative AI Collaboration artwork exhibited at Arts Korea Lab, Twin Tree Tower 1F, 6 Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 2023.