Faculty Art on Display at Luna Fête 2016

Earlier this month, thousands of art lovers attended Luna Fête 2016, a unique festival that uses New Orleans’ iconic architecture as a backdrop for futuristic art installations using light and technology. Iconic buildings around Lafayette Square are lit up with lasers, LEDs, and other lights to create shimmering and scintillating art pieces contrasted against the dark night sky. One such piece was The Cave by Newman teacher Jenna deBoisblanc, an interactive installation that employed both social media and artificial intelligence.

 

The Cave is an interactive, projection-mapped installation at Luna Fête 2016 that explores the dawn of art created by artificial intelligence- art made possible by new machine learning algorithms. The installation seeks to highlight this pivotal moment in the evolution of AI by drawing parallels to the first art created by humans. By tweeting to @paintingthecave, the audience spawns algorithmically-generated "cave paintings" that are embedded into the cave's digital mesh. 

 

The Cave's visuals and interactivity are programmed in Processing, a visual programming language that deBoisblanc is currently using to teach her Upper School Creative Coding class. The music featured in the video is an original composition by Middle School Head Peter Cline titled, "Excelsis."