Playful machine learning

In this hands-on workshop, artist and interaction designer Andreas Refsgaard will demonstrate how to use machine learning algorithms and AI in playful and poetic ways.

Using a combination of open source and commercial tools, participants with try different techniques related to generative AI and supervised machine learning on their own computer.

The workshop is suitable for people with no prior experience with code or machine learning, who are interested in getting acquainted with the creative potential these technologies hold.

Andreas Refsgaard is an artist and creative coder based in Copenhagen. Working in the field between art and interaction design he uses algorithms, data and machine learning to explore the creative potentials of emerging digital technologies.

In his artistic practice, Andreas applies a humorous approach to the digital tools and their potential applications, purposes and values. His works often consists of imaginative and unconventional combinations of inputs and outputs allowing people to e.g. play music using eye-movement, generate memes or fake wikipedia pages from photos or transforming drawings of musical instruments into real compositions.

His playful, somewhat wacky and often interactive works are characterised by a naive and openminded approach, which questions and exposes both the possible benefits and drawbacks of the applied technologies in a straightforward and unassuming manner.