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Art PROJECTs

GROW YOUR OWN CLOUD (GYOC) reimagines the cloud by storing data nature's way - in the DNA of plants. The initiative seeks to create a new type of cloud, one that is organic, rather than silicon, and which emits oxygen rather than CO2.

The installation, which premiered at SXSW 2020, is a contemporary Data Garden, featuring plants encoded with data and tools for the audience to experiment with decoding, to reveal hidden messages. This involves state of the art DNA data science, a technology which has the potential to store all of the world's data in just 1 kg of DNA. The project has won numerous awards over the last several years, including the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the Art and Science category.

The installation is a collaboration between the artists Cyrus Clarke (UK) and Monika Seyfried (PL) and scientist Jeff Nivala (US), supported by Unlisted Projects (US), The Museum of Human Achievement (US), Danish Arts in Austin, Roskilde Festival (DK) and Catch (DK).

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*Data Garden was also awarded an honorary mention by the Ars Electronica STARTS Prize. The Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts.⁣*

This track was created by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) during training on 1 second clips of a single song ('Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt' by The Mars Volta). Every 1 second of the track is the GAN output after 10 training epochs. It starts to get interesting around the 3 min mark..