Kyle McDonald is a media artist. McDonald creates visually appealing models using code, and releases tool kits for other artists to customize their own art as they see fit. McDonald was recently an adjunct professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts' ITP. He is a member of F.A.T lab (

Free Art and Technology Lab The Free Art and Technology Lab a.k.a. F.A.T. Lab was a collective of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and musicians, dedicated to the merging of popular culture with open source technology. F.A.T. Lab was known for producing artwork cri ...

), and a community manager for

OpenFrameworks openFrameworks is an open source toolkit designed for creative coding founded by Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson and Arturo Castro. OpenFrameworks is written in C++ and built on top of OpenGL. It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, ...

. He was a resident at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

Work/Research

Kyle McDonald worked on certifying AI images. He identified fakes called "

generative adversarial networks A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks designed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in June 2014. Two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is a ...

"(GANs). They essentially take data into a neural network, and it is "trained" to produce the best possible image. While most images generated by these types of networks have become increasingly tough to dicipher, McDonald claims credit for positive identifications and offers proof for his marked deep-fakes. For example, GAN's have a tough time with background images because they home in on the face in the image, and as a result, produces a random one. As part of his work/research, McDonald and his partner

Lauren McCarthy Lauren McCarthy is a Chinese-American artist and computer programmer based in Los Angeles. McCarthy creates artworks that use a variety of media and techniques, including performance, artificial intelligence and programmed computer-based interact ...

worked on a project called MWITM(Man/Woman in the middle). Essentially, there was a server that would intercept the messages, and two chatbots, one for each artist, would communicate automatically without any direct messaging. The messages created were based on the communication style of the users, and were trained over time. Work by McDonald has inspired

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's "Listening Together" feature.

Other accomplishments

''"Social Soul,"'' 2014 ''"Light Leaks,"'' 2018 ''"Meaningful Interactions,"'' 2016 ''"The Thrill of Terrapattern, A New Way to Search Satellite Imagery,"'' 2016 ''"Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth's Missing Search Engine,"'' 2016 ''"The Augmented Hand Series -- Playful, dreamlike, and uncanny,"'' 2015 ''"An Addictive Experiment in Annotating Footage from a London Street,"'' 2015 ''"Exhausting a Crowd,"'' 2015 ''"Wifi Whisperer,"'' 2016 ''"Highsight,"'' 2015 ''"Untitled Digital Art,"'' 2014 ''"Sharing Faces,"'' 2016 ''"How We Act Together,"'' 2016 ''"Hacking Surveillance Culture,"'' 2014

References

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