Musician, digital artist and lecturer Franz Rosati presents his latest project ‘Latentscape’ at the AI and Music Festival. 

The work, explicitly designed as an performable AV concert series depicts the exploration of virtual landscapes and territories, supported by music generated by machine learning tools trained on traditional, folk and pop music with no temporal and cultural limitations. Employing GAN’s trained on datasets of publicly available satellite imagery, (and deliberately manipulated to encourage randomness), the work aims to de-contextualize and question the notion of geographical, and cultural, borders and boundaries, resulting in a work where streams of pixels take the form of cracks, erosions or mountains, and where colors and textures are the virtual representation of memories and emotions that the territory expresses and carries with it through its shape.