
Simon Colton
@simongcolton
Generative artist & AI professor at QMUL and Monash unis. #GenerativeArt #NFTs #CreativeAI #FXHash: fxhash.xyz/u/Simon%20Coltโฆ
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https://www.imaginative.ai 30-06-2017 20:45:34
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The contrast of emotions while writing (left) and after completing (right) the 530 pages of the 2nd Edition of our AI and Games textbook. Julian Togelius and I finally got a copy of the book soon before we kick-start the AI and Games School 2025. Get your own copy here: lnkd.in/dZbGCnyc



Controllable, Generative... Retrieval? ๐คจ Delighted to share our second #ISMIR2025 paper: GD-Retriever ๐ถ๐ง A generative framework for controllable text-to-music retrieval using diffusion models. Accepted at ISMIR Conference ! ๐ฐ๐ท 1/๐งต


๐ถ AIM is live at #NIME2025! From waveform autoencoding to a Python library for Bela, our researchers, including teresa pelinski, Franco Caspe, and Lewis Wolstanholme, are pushing musical interfaces to new frontiers. Catch our papers, demos & sounds: aim.qmul.ac.uk/aim-at-nime-20โฆ

๐ข iGGi ๐ Develop:Brighton 2025 Meet us at the iGGi stand (B12) on the expo floor and chat to our researchers!! Today, we'd like to highlight >>> Ross Fifield <<< whose research focuses among other things on Discoverability & Matchmaking! ๐ Ross Fifield ๐ Develop Brighton linkedin.com/in/rossfifield/



This was another highlight of Basel 2025 - Human Study #1 โ the ยซย automated portraitย ยป by ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ It was part of the AUTOMATA installation โ 3 robotic arms with cameras ยซย redefining the boundaries of art, technology, and cultureย ยป โฆ ๐ ArtMeta


AI might be humanity's best moderator. Google DeepMind's Habermas Machine helps people actually find agreement, without shouting matches or overt bias. Chris Summerfield summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social & AI Security Institute gave session 6 at Oxford's AI x Philosophy Seminar. Key takeaways ๐งต:


My next #LDNCreativeAI meetup will be on 15th July 'Neural Folklore, Improv and Poetic Embodiment' Human Machine Improv - Piotr Mirowski ๐ญ Atay Ilgun ๐ต๐ผ๏ธ Diana Alina Serbanescu aka Neranti ๐ hosted at IDEALondon Subaita Sign up here: bit.ly/4lr4EnU #CreativeAI #AIart


My colleague Alexander Spangher and I are trying to film a demo for our piano autopilot on a modern Disklavier. If you're in London or LA and have access to one (or know someone who does), please DM me! #robotjazz


Twin Chairs number 1, 2011 Created by 'The Painting Fool', a project by Simon Colton, through his research programme as part of the Computational Creativity Research Group at Goldsmiths College, London.Goldsmiths CCG Simon had been developing Al, Graphics and Vision



