collaboration · Ryan Kelln

Sun Nov 05, 2023

Neural Ballet

November 10, 2023 Factory 163 Stratford, Ontario “Neural Ballet” is a live dance presentation enriched with AI-generated visuals, collaboratively created and performed by professional ballet dancer and award-winning choreographer Irina Lerman, along with software artist Ryan Kelln. It is part of the Provocation Ideas Festival and co-presented by SpringWorks. This distinctive show weaves a mesmerizing tapestry that includes both neoclassical masterpieces and original contemporary works, specifically crafted for this event.

Thu Jun 08, 2023

Transmigrations

The Transmigrations live music concert was performed in Toronto on June 9, 2023 at the Toronto Reference Library and November 17, 2023 at Factory 163 in Stratford. This concert, a collaboration between Dhaivat Jani and Ryan Kelln, is part of the Provocation Ideas Festival, and explores the history of the technological transformation of modern society, the nature of intelligence, and the recent revolution in generative AI tools. It includes an integrated discussion about the practice of using these tools and how increasingly intelligent and accessible tools will shape economics, politics, and culture.

Tue Jul 20, 2021

Five Directions

The Five Directions tutorial series is a collaboration with Jason Baerg to help educate artists and scholars about the principles, history, current practice and future of machine learning and its use in art practice. Originally designed for a group of Indigenous artists and scholars as part of a larger project spearheaded by Jason Bearg, this tutorial series is now publicly available thanks to Interaccess. This is a series of 5 hour-long narrated presentations intended to teach the history, current practice and future of using machines and machine learning (A.

Tue Jul 20, 2021

Sound Escapes

The Sound Escapes concert is a collaboration with Spectrum Music released on July 30, 2021 as a online concert. Concert streamed on twitch on July 30th at 8pm ET. It is now available on youtube. Watch the full concert here. Inspired by the wild and uninhibited beauty of nature, it is a collaboration of 6 emerging composers, an amazing jazz trio and myself. For each piece I have created accompanying visuals; a music video crafted from found footage, local landscapes and generated by machine learning / artificial intelligence, all made with open source software.

Tue Sep 17, 2019

AI Art Assistant

I am currently looking for collaborators for a machine learning and art project. Would you like to join me? Continue reading below!

Tue Aug 20, 2019

Coding Chaos Concert

The Coding Chaos concert was a collaboration with Spectrum Music performed on May 2, 2019 at The Tell in Toronto, Canada. Part of Spectrum’s 2019 concert series featuring the Jungian archetypes, this concert represented The Creator, as described by them: Where will we be when what we create can create us? Technology continues to grow at an exponential rate as we discover new ways to improve our everyday lives - but at what point do we lose ourselves to a technology advanced far beyond our control?

Wed Oct 04, 2017

Brush'd

One-button game made for the Curious Cabinets Arcade Exhibition put on by amazing Hand-Eye Society and hosted by the wonderful Electric Perfume.

Sat Nov 15, 2014

Creo Animam

In June 2015, I was honoured to work with the Univox Choir that I’ve been singing with for over 10 years. Instead of the usual musician guest artist who performs with the choir, I created and directed a concert about the near future. I was incredibly humbled by and proud of all the extra effort that the choir put into this concert: from arranging music, finding images online, creating music videos to accompany the pieces, and helping out in so many ways this was a hugely collaborative piece. You will eventually be able to see the results of this at the Creo Animam website.

This page documents some of the research and notes for that concert that I created and shared with the choir while I was developing the concert. The concept for the concert investigates the near future, one where the pace of change has continued to accelerate, everything digital is free, in price and liberty, everything you want to track is recorded, and personal and collective power is only exceeded by the new forms life we have dreamed into the world around us.

What is our destiny when we have created beings that surpass us in every way?

Fri Sep 26, 2008

Hourface

Hourface is a Processing based Java software project intended for use as an interactive video art installation. It was created in collaboration with Yoko Takashima for a show called Blend at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Mon Jun 14, 2004

yoFace

Custom Java software used in the 2003 “Face-scape” installation in collaboration with Yoko Takashima. Rewritten in 2004, the second version was exhibited at the Thailand New Media Festival 2004. yoFace adds images to each other and allows for dynamic image to be built that is the sum of all of its parts.