Installation at CVPR 2025 AI Art Gallery

Is an interactive digital installation that uses a touch interface to manipulate the inner workings of an AI system. As visitors engage with the interface, their interaction disrupts and reshapes the model’s internal processes, subverting its typical behavior and revealing surprising visual outcomes.

The project builds on network bending techniques, originally developed by Terence Broad to manipulate the computational graph of GANs. As part of my dissertation at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, I adapted these techniques to a diffusion model, enabling real-time interaction and control.

The interface includes an XY pad and an interactive U-Net map, making these complex techniques intuitive and tangible for users.

To ensure portability, the installation runs on a real-time cloud GPU backend, using FastAPI, WebSockets, and OSC to dynamically drive AI image generation.