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\n2021 – A research project led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) entitled
\n“Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong” has been
\nawarded HK$52.8 million in research funding from the Theme-based Research
\nScheme (11th round) under the Research Grants Council (RGC) for a five-year project.
\nThis is the first time that major funding has been allocated by the RGC for an art-tech
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The research team led by Professor Guo
\nYike, Vice-President (Research and Development) (right) and Professor Johnny M
\nPoon, Associate Vice-President (Interdisciplinary Research) at HKBU has been
\nawarded HK$52.8 million in research funding from RGC to develop platform
\ntechnologies for symbiotic creativity.<\/h5>\n
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The
\nresearch team will develop platform technologies for symbiotic creativity,
\nproviding unlimited art content for humans, including an art data repository,
\nan artificial intelligence (AI) creative algorithm system, a research theatre,
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\nart and policy network, and some unique and creative application projects, to usher in
\na new era of art technology.<\/p>\n
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Led by
\nProfessor Guo Yike, Vice-President (Research and Development), and Professor
\nJohnny M Poon, Associate Vice-President (Interdisciplinary Research), at HKBU,
\nthe research team will develop an immersive and interactive extended reality (XR)
\nplatform to capture human data during the artistic creation and appreciation
\nprocess, which includes the cognitive and physiological data of artists and the
\naudience, such as brain waves, body temperature and heart rates, gait and
\nmovements, etc. The platform will then convert the data into the descriptors of
\ncognition, emotions, and behavioural patterns.<\/p>\n
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\nresearchers will associate and link the artworks with the descriptors to build a
\ncomprehensive and extensive data repository for artificial intelligence model
\ntraining. It will enable machines to learn human aesthetics, instead of
\nmimicking art created by humans.<\/p>\n
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The
\nplatform will also enable the audience to immerse themselves in a virtual world.
\nThey will be surrounded by images, sounds, etc, and have new artistic experiences.
\nIn addition, the immersive and interactive XR platform will be equipped with a
\nnumber of sensing devices, which will help the artists to go beyond the traditional
\nforms and boundaries and communicate and interact with the audience in new
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“This research project has secured
\nfunding from the RGC, demonstrating that Hong Kong attaches great importance to
\nthe development of artistic and creative technologies based on AI. This project
\nstands at
\nthe forefront of the arts and science nexus, harnessing the power of science
\nand technology to advance human and AI interaction in art creation. It will
\nfoster a new direction in art created by both humans and machines,” said
\nProfessor Guo.<\/p>\n
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“We will
\nspare no effort in building a world-class AI art creation platform, and it will
\ndrive a new revolution that transforms the creative and cultural industries. It
\nwill enable Hong Kong to assume a leading position in art-tech on the global
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Under this
\nproject, HKBU will launch three application projects: the Super AI artist \u2013 the
\nworld’s first “Combined Music and Art Biennale”, which will host
\nmultidisciplinary musical works and artworks jointly created by humans and AI; Shared
\nMind and Empathetic AI \u2013 a concert series featuring a three-way collaboration
\nbetween performers, the audience and machines; and Symbiotic Opera \u2013 a new form
\nof opera that integrates with immersive XR technology, and it will be jointly created
\nby humans and machines in an immersive virtual world.<\/p>\n
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Members
\nof the multidisciplinary research team led by HKBU include cognitive
\nscientists, AI and data scientists, media scientists, ethicists and art policy
\nscholars from Yale University, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College
\nLondon, the University of Kent, Tsinghua University, the University of Hong
\nKong and City University of Hong Kong. The research team will also collaborate
\nclosely with industrial and musical partners, including Huawei, Microsoft,
\nSenseTime and Opera Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 13 July
2021 – A research project led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) entitled
“Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong” has been
awarded HK$52.8 million in research funding from the Theme-based Research
Scheme (11th round) under the Research Grants Council (RGC) for a five-year …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}