BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20201209T193000 UID:6a63de166b12a DTSTAMP:20260725T075014 LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION: Speaker's Bio Christoph Schommer\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Luxemburg. He previously worked at IBM and studied Computer Science at the universities in Saarbrucken \;and Frankfurt/Main. Christoph has worked on numerous projects on Natural \;Language Processing\, Machine Learning\, and Data Science and in various \;application domains such as in Humanities\, Finance\, and Medicine. \;Christoph teaches in Luxembourg\, Berlin\, Beijing\, and Singapore. His team consists of 3 PostDocs\, 5 Ph.D. \;candidates\, and several Master and Bachelor students. He has been a Rotarian member of RC Gummersbach-Oberberg (Germany) since 2015. He is married and the proud father of one daughter. Christoph plays the piano \;and is interested in handball and chess. Abstract Obvious is a collective of researchers and artists who experiment with \;Deep Learning techniques (Artificial Neural systems) to explore the \;creative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Arts. In 2018\, Obvious fed \;15000 classical portraits into a Deep Learning system and let it learn \;to autonomously create a series of new portraits. One of \;these paintings was auctioned and sold at \;Christie's in New York for more than 400k USD - almost twice as much as \;other paintings by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol together. So\, is art exclusively limited to human creativity\, or is the AI's \;involvement also art? Against this background\, this talk will serve as \;an inspiration and give food for thought\, show possibilities of new \;application ideas\, and give an overview of some of the ongoing activities \;in this field. URL;VALUE=URI:http://rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au/event/42868 SUMMARY:Deep Learning for the Arts - ONLINE ONLY DTSTART:20201209T180000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR