Dissertation outline from class

Title - Explains the work as an overview


Can generative art be used to capture my fading memories of Invercargill inner city architectural facades synthesised from digital photographic collections?

Introduction - 1-2 paragraphs

1. Question - First Sentence and explain.
2. Definitions (Key Terms) - explains the jargon in the question.
3. Rationale - why the research project is important.
4. Methodology - 1-2 sentences (includes approach to blogging / journaling).
5. Organisation - 1-2 sentences (explains the structure of the dissertation).

Can generative art be used to capture my fading memories of Invercargill inner city architectural facades synthesised from digital photographic collections? This can be broken down into generative art (trained AI) sharing my minds fading pictorial recollections of Invercargill's building facades, using a large personal photographic collection of Invercargill facades as the data. Generative Art incorporates a self-governed or autonomous system in some way, this project uses Pix2Pix as the system. Pix2Pix generates images by using large pictorial collections as training data, this data is crucial and has been curated specifically for the project. Having a background in computers influenced this project as computer memory can be corrupted due to age, just like people. Drawing on the parallels of technological and biological memory loss, and the subsequent corrupted output. The impending Invercargill inner city redevelopment shall remove many of the buildings that are part of the photographic collection and also shall fade from many locals memories.

This project shall use a Practice-led research methodology and active documentation via a blog.

Body - Paragraphs should be 3-5 sentences

1. First paragraph should be Methodology.
2. First sentence should be argument.
3. Second sentence example (quote, refer to relevant image, talk about artists, own practice) paraphrasing is a better way of quoting as it shows your understanding of the topic.
4. Last sentence explanation.

The methodology employed shall be Practice-led research. “Practice-led research focuses on the nature of creative practice, leading to new knowledge of operational significance for that practice, in order to advance knowledge about or within practice.” (Skains, 2017)  

Curation of photographic collections amplified Nostalgia. sentimental

Generative art and misremembered past linked as both are representational only.

Urban nostalgia helps people to maintain a sense of emotional continuity in a ‘rapidly shifting landscape of their personal and social lives.

Top down learning keeps pace with technological advancement.

Seeing art through fresh eyes and computer vision.

Conclusion - 1-2 paragraphs

1. Restates / Summaries arguments
2. Outlines findings
3. States implication of findings

In conclusion we have examined whether generative art captures the fading memories of Invercargill inner city building facades by focusing on nostalgia and memory, drawing on human memories fading and computer data loss as a time based decline of memory accuracy. The sentimental nature of curating photographs from a rapidly changing urban landscape was shown to amplify the feelings of nostalgia. Whilst what the generative art created from the photograph collection was similar to a police identikit as it approximated details from pre-trained knowledge. 

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