"David Birchfield. 2005. Interactions: an interactive multimedia installation. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1069-1070. DOI=10.1145/1101149.1101381 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101381" Interactions is an interactive multimedia installation designed and realized by the author. The installation utilizes two neural network artist agents that act as virtual artists to manipulate a body of images, texts, and sounds collected from the internet as directed by audience participants. The piece addresses issues including competition in the arts, machine learning in media, the role of popular acceptance in art, and the relationship between raw materials and style in creating media.

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