Titus Ebbecke
Titus Ebbecke is a German-born HCI designer who explores various domains of technology, design, and art. With a focus on cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and generative design, he is especially interested in prototyping for the far future. As an anti-disciplinary designer, software engineer, and artist, he seeks to leverage all aspects of modern computers to build concepts that tackle the fundamental challenges of today and tomorrow. This includes using design and software engineering to explore biological data of viruses and bacteria, interactively visualizing satellite data to illustrate climate change, or building wearable homes for those who do not have a real one. Titus is a future Master of Design candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Alumni at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
ARTificial Autonomous Robot by Titus Ebbecke
ARTificial is an autonomous painting robot that creates art with almost no human authorship. A generative adversarial network produces a new portrait, and a novel algorithm converts the digital image into coordinates. An industrial robot then paints the portrait on canvas with acrylic. After two buttons are pressed, the machine selects a random motif, takes paint, cleans the brush and works until the artwork is finished. A foundation of wood, concrete and steel supports safe operation. The installation questions whether art creation belongs only to intelligent beings.
