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martin calvino
artist - scientist
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SUBORDINATED REALITY: open call for [video art + short film exhibition] on behalf of Videokanava art
SUBORDINATED REALITY_ Open Call for video artists and filmmakers Application Period: March-2 to May-25, 2020 Weblink:...
Martin Calvino
Mar 5, 20204 min read
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Automated detection of political ideology from text: a case study of newspapers in Uruguay
ABSTRACT_ Although objective reporting is the landmark of professional journalism, several academics have argued that the media is...
Martin Calvino
Nov 12, 201953 min read
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Visualization of Convolutional Neural Network's representation of images from Calvino's artworks
Synopsis_ Previously a Convolutional Neural Network was used by the author to classify images derived from artworks containing handmade...
Martin Calvino
Sep 7, 20199 min read
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Image classification of Calvino's artworks using Convolutional Neural Networks
SUMMARY_ Image classification using Convolutional Neural Networks was used to asses the artistic portfolio of Martin Calvino's work that...
Martin Calvino
Jul 19, 201913 min read
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ENCHUFE: Montevideo electroTango Festival
Organizers of the program 'Viví Tango' under the sponsorship of 'Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo' (Montevideo - Uruguay) have...
Martin Calvino
Jun 11, 201914 min read
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Re-appropriation of short films for video art creation
In this brief essay, the author describes the re-appropriation of the previously created and released short film named "Ocho Cortado:...
Martin Calvino
May 6, 20192 min read
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Helitron Art - from Network Graphs of Wikipedia pages, to DNA sequences from DNA transposons, to Alg
Synopsis_ The work presented here explored the aesthetic possibilities of using Helitron Transposon DNA sequences from the maize genome...
Martin Calvino in collaboration with Chunguang Du
Apr 16, 201910 min read
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Natural Language Processing of facebook messages; and their inclusion into an abstract painting
Synopsis_ In this work the author attempted to hybridize aspects of contemporary digital communication such as Facebook text messages,...
Martin Calvino
Mar 23, 201945 min read
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Interactive audiovisual augmentation of physical paintings
Background_ Concurrently with the beginning of 2019, I started an artist-in-residence at the 'Art And Artificial Intelligence Lab' at the...
Martin Calvino
Mar 7, 20194 min read
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'TechnoArte Latino' at Princeton Public Library: insightful discussions on the role of techn
Date: Sunday-May-5-2019 Hour: 2-to-4:30 PM Location: Princeton Public Library Weblinks: https://princetonlibrary.org/event/technoarte-lat...
Martin Calvino
Jan 28, 20194 min read
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'OCHO_CORTADO': Altered Realities of a Tango Dream
Synopsis_ 'OCHO_CORTADO' is a short film depicting altered realities of a tango dream from a female dancer's perspective. The story takes...
Martin Calvino
Dec 31, 20184 min read
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'looping_thoughts': my first album of electronic music with a notch of tango remix
On Friday-November-30-2018 my first album of electronic music, with name of 'looping_thoughts', was released under Record Label Bandurria...
Martin Calvino
Dec 2, 20182 min read
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Audio_visual studies of dancing bodies and electro_tango sound compositions
The use of technology in artistic processes has the potential to re-interpret traditional aspects of culture. I've been interested in...
Martin Calvino
Nov 5, 20183 min read
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Re-interpreting dancing bodies in video-art
When video becomes art? Or to re-frame the question: What is video art? For the purposes of this study, video art relates to the moving...
Martin Calvino
Oct 15, 20182 min read
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Approaching Uruguayan culture through the lens of New Media Arts: summary of event held at the '
The implementation of digital technologies to traditional aspects of Uruguayan culture provides a fertile playground to hybridize the...
Martin Calvino
Oct 13, 20186 min read
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Electro_Cortinas_Milongueras: electronic music + tango re-mix
Extended Play (EP) COVER_ The rendering of music in tango social dance is structured in groups of three or four songs, with each group...
Martin Calvino
Aug 28, 20182 min read
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Creation of synthetic microRNA169 gene copies using machine learning
Synopsis The implementation of machine learning algorithms to synthetic biology could, in principle, generate novel hypothesis about...
Martin Calvino
Aug 6, 20184 min read
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Exploring the expressive capacity of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for tango lyrics composition
In this essay I describe a methodology to help curate tango lyrics that were created using machine learning (ML herein). The method is...
Martin Calvino
Jul 4, 20187 min read
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AI-Generated Tango: pure machine creativity churns out tango lyrics like those of the golden age
The culture of tango and its community -be it in Argentina, Uruguay or anywhere else in the world- is inherently obsessed with the past....
Martin Calvino
Jun 9, 20184 min read
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Automation of 'news headlines' on DONALD TRUMP using machine learning
Much have been said about the socio-cultural and political consequences of fake news, and their dependency on digital media technologies...
Martin Calvino
Jun 3, 20183 min read
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