JavaScript for Artists
summary
Argues JavaScript is a practical art platform because it runs in browser, server and hardware and gives immediate APIs: canvas/WebGL, Web Audio, media capture and Web MIDI video-triggered poems that actually work. Demos include a client-side face-api.js emotion detector (tries to sing when sad but struggles in the demo), Azure and Google Vision comparisons, a working Web MIDI controller that swaps videos and generative poetry, Espruino and Johnny-Five for hardware, and neural style transfers via ml5/magenta; many small projects are successful and code is shared online.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 3:55Who is the speaker
- 7:23Defining art for this talk
- 11:21Why JavaScript for art
- 13:49Importance of creative play
- 22:18Tools for creative JavaScript
- 27:38AI and machine learning in art
- 32:52Facial recognition demos
- 41:19Web MIDI poetry demo
- 43:36Neural style transfer examples
- 45:46Q&A and closing
