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Martin Calvino
- Nov 12, 2019
- 53 min
Automated detection of political ideology from text: a case study of newspapers in Uruguay
ABSTRACT_ Although objective reporting is the landmark of professional journalism, several academics have argued that the media is ideologically biased. The association of the printed press (newspapers) with political parties have long been acknowledged in Uruguay. However, the lack of studies that empirically demonstrate and measure the extent of ideological bias towards political affiliations has prevented scholars from addressing the ideological diversity of newspapers. He

Martin Calvino
- Sep 7, 2019
- 9 min
Visualization of Convolutional Neural Network's representation of images from Calvino's artworks
Synopsis_ Previously a Convolutional Neural Network was used by the author to classify images derived from artworks containing handmade visual elements relative to images derived from artworks created entirely with computer code [1]. However, the visual concepts learned by the network that helped it to correctly classify artworks weren't investigated. In this work the author explored a visualization technique [2] to elucidate the inner workings of Convolutional Neural Network

Martin Calvino
- Jul 19, 2019
- 13 min
Image classification of Calvino's artworks using Convolutional Neural Networks
SUMMARY_ Image classification using Convolutional Neural Networks was used to asses the artistic portfolio of Martin Calvino's work that included hand's gesture derived artworks from algorithmically created artworks. The machine learning algorithm approach used could effectively predict the nature of the artwork with 90% accuracy. This work could be used as inspiration to cataloguing images from art collections at museums and art organizations. BACKGROUND_ Artificial intellig
Martin Calvino
- Jun 11, 2019
- 14 min
ENCHUFE: Montevideo electroTango Festival
Organizers of the program 'Viví Tango' under the sponsorship of 'Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo' (Montevideo - Uruguay) have recently reached out to me requesting the writing of a commissioned proposal for an art-tech-tango event that could combine audiovisual elements with those of tango culture. Such an event - I was told - could be combined into the second edition of the 'Festival por la Convivencia Montevideo Tango' to be realized on September-28-2019. After an initi

Martin Calvino
- May 6, 2019
- 2 min
Re-appropriation of short films for video art creation
In this brief essay, the author describes the re-appropriation of the previously created and released short film named "Ocho Cortado: Altered Realities of a Tango Dream' as raw material for video art creation and; at the same time as accompaniment to an electroTango sound composition from the same author. The video art piece combines elements from traditional tango danced in non-traditional settings such as the subway in New York City, traditional tango music re-mixed into no

Martin Calvino in collaboration with Chunguang Du
- Apr 16, 2019
- 10 min
Helitron Art - from Network Graphs of Wikipedia pages, to DNA sequences from DNA transposons, to Alg
Synopsis_ The work presented here explored the aesthetic possibilities of using Helitron Transposon DNA sequences from the maize genome as raw material for the creation of algorithmic art. Complex network graphs constructed from Wikipedia pages were re-mixed based on the DNA sequence of a particular Helitron element belonging to the Cornucopius family after they were aligned. The work extends general efforts from the artist in integrating art with science, and strengthen in p

Martin Calvino
- Mar 23, 2019
- 45 min
Natural Language Processing of facebook messages; and their inclusion into an abstract painting
Synopsis_ In this work the author attempted to hybridize aspects of contemporary digital communication such as Facebook text messages, personal data derived from social media use, text analysis and visualization using computer algorithms, and traditional abstract painting. As result the author conceived and created an abstract painting (acrylic on cardboard) having regular mail envelopes containing excerpts from incoming and ongoing Facebook messages. These messages were the

Martin Calvino
- Mar 8, 2019
- 4 min
Interactive audiovisual augmentation of physical paintings
Background_ Concurrently with the beginning of 2019, I started an artist-in-residence at the 'Art And Artificial Intelligence Lab' at the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University. When reflecting on the current use (and future possibilities) of deep learning for visual art generation, I thought of the importance to train neural network algorithms based on my own visual inputs derived from the results of my artistic work. The generative output of deep learning algorit

Martin Calvino
- Jan 28, 2019
- 4 min
'TechnoArte Latino' at Princeton Public Library: insightful discussions on the role of techn
Date: Sunday-May-5-2019 Hour: 2-to-4:30 PM Location: Princeton Public Library Weblinks: https://princetonlibrary.org/event/technoarte-latino https://technoartelatino.github.io/ City: Princeton, New Jersey Admission: FREE Curators: Martin Calvino & Aaron Montoya-Moraga TechnoArte Latino is a multimedia art event featuring latin artists currently living in United States who use cutting edge digital technologies as central part in their creative practices. The event will host ta

Martin Calvino
- Dec 31, 2018
- 4 min
'OCHO_CORTADO': Altered Realities of a Tango Dream
Synopsis_ 'OCHO_CORTADO' is a short film depicting altered realities of a tango dream from a female dancer's perspective. The story takes place on a subway commute (NYC's subway) when the main character (female dancer) fall asleep on her seat and start dreaming about dancing on the train platform. There are three independent dancing dreams during her daily commute, each dream with a stranger/dancer that gets into the train and seats next to her. While the female character is

Martin Calvino
- Dec 2, 2018
- 2 min
'looping_thoughts': my first album of electronic music with a notch of tango remix
On Friday-November-30-2018 my first album of electronic music, with name of 'looping_thoughts', was released under Record Label Bandurria (Figure 1). It contains five distinct sound compositions each with a unique style derived from combining electronic music with a notch of tango remix. The album is available for download on 'bandcamp' (Figure 2) at the following weblink. Figure 1. Screenshot of Bandurria's website displaying represented artists and all their music album rel

Martin Calvino
- Nov 5, 2018
- 3 min
Audio_visual studies of dancing bodies and electro_tango sound compositions
The use of technology in artistic processes has the potential to re-interpret traditional aspects of culture. I've been interested in exploring computer vision algorithms and electronic music to create video-art and electronic sound compositions that re-asses tango culture from the perspective of new media arts [see references]. This has allowed me to experiment with novel aesthetic approaches that depart from the traditional visuality of tango culture and re-contextualize it

Martin Calvino
- Oct 16, 2018
- 2 min
Re-interpreting dancing bodies in video-art
When video becomes art? Or to re-frame the question: What is video art? For the purposes of this study, video art relates to the moving image acquiring new aesthetic characteristics separated from the realism involved in the original recording of the video. Thus, realism is not an end in itself but a medium used by the artist to compose. I was inspired by dancing bodies as raw material for video-art creation, re-interpreting them as dynamic objects that can be changed, altere

Martin Calvino
- Oct 13, 2018
- 6 min
Approaching Uruguayan culture through the lens of New Media Arts: summary of event held at the '
The implementation of digital technologies to traditional aspects of Uruguayan culture provides a fertile playground to hybridize the past and the future. In the event titled 'Approaching Uruguayan culture through the lens of new media arts', three artists from Uruguay (Luisa Pereira, Marco Guarino, and Martin Calvino) currently working in New York City talked about their efforts in applying cutting edge technology to explore sound art, candombe and tango. The event also coun

Martin Calvino
- Aug 29, 2018
- 2 min
Electro_Cortinas_Milongueras: electronic music + tango re-mix
Extended Play (EP) COVER_ The rendering of music in tango social dance is structured in groups of three or four songs, with each group separated by a non-tango song called 'the cortina'. Cortinas allow dancers to exchange partners throughout the night. Most of times cortinas are not played until completion and are only there to signify a 'break' among group of tangos. Because there is no established rule as to which music genre should be played as cortina, DJs explore a wide

Martin Calvino
- Aug 6, 2018
- 4 min
Creation of synthetic microRNA169 gene copies using machine learning
Synopsis The implementation of machine learning algorithms to synthetic biology could, in principle, generate novel hypothesis about living systems because machine learning can help in the identification of design rules for construction of functional network architectures and synthetic gene circuits. Synthetic biology as discipline is concerned with the creation of gene networks to re-program living cells and ultimately endow them with new capabilities for an array of biotech

Martin Calvino
- Jul 4, 2018
- 7 min
Exploring the expressive capacity of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for tango lyrics composition
In this essay I describe a methodology to help curate tango lyrics that were created using machine learning (ML herein). The method is based on text analysis of the corpus used as input to guide the selection of ML-generated paragraphs containing words of interest that were frequently used by famous composers. I've previously experimented with a tensorflow implementation of an LSTM (a particular type of RNN) known as 'char-rnn' to create tango lyrics from a corpus containing

Martin Calvino
- Jun 9, 2018
- 4 min
AI-Generated Tango: pure machine creativity churns out tango lyrics like those of the golden age
The culture of tango and its community -be it in Argentina, Uruguay or anywhere else in the world- is inherently obsessed with the past. With ritual fervor we listen and dance to tango songs that were written, composed and rendered more than 70 years ago. When I used to live in Uruguay, I've heard my parents, relatives and friends say: 'the past was a better time' in remembrance of tango, as well as politico-economic and athletic achievements from previous generations. Simila

Martin Calvino
- Jun 3, 2018
- 3 min
Automation of 'news headlines' on DONALD TRUMP using machine learning
Much have been said about the socio-cultural and political consequences of fake news, and their dependency on digital media technologies for its amplification. This is reflected in the concept of 'post-truth', in which objective and verifiable facts are no longer as influential in shaping public opinion as those specifically made to appeal to emotions and personal belief regardless of veracity. A clear example of mis-information virally spreading over social networks occurred
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