060 Portrait XO (she/they) is an independent researcher and artist who createsmusical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods. She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound. 1st prize winner of the first German human-AI jazz prize: ‘JazzKI Human-Machine Creativity Award’ by Elbjazz Festival. In collaboration with Dadabots, theywon ‘Best Experiment’ award at the VUT Indie Awards 2021, and the Eurovision AI SongContest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’ in 2020. Her development into AI audiovisual art evolved through several artist residencies fromNEW NOWFESTIVAL and BBAGallery in 2021, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020. She recently launched SOUNDOBSESSED – a sonic innovation archive celebrating the journey andmilestones of new innovation in soundwith an incredible group of artist and researchers. Her debut research-based AI audiovisual album ‘WIRE’ was released on December 9th 2022 as a first of its kind NFT-to-Vinyl release. Your work as an artist involves creating musical and visual works using both traditional and nontraditional methods. How would you describe the intersection between these different mediums in your artistic practice? I’ve never felt satisfied just sticking to one medium to feel like I’m expressing myself fully. Music is the most intense medium because it’s the one I turn to express feelings I can’t translate through words or imagery. It’s also the space of creating that consumes me completely that’s different to other mediums. It’s like a void that sucks me in when I get the call and I lose concept of space, time, and myself in sound. Visuals have always been as important to me as making music because storytelling is a big part of the way I like to make art and music. Since I’ve been obsessed with the intersection of art, science, and strange new tech, my curiosities keep me inspired as I keep learning fascinating new fabrics of invisible things which is how I’d describe what happens when I connect and mix fields of interests in ways I haven’t explored yet. Becoming more scientific as an artist has been the most inspiring way for me to continuously fall in love with uncertainty in a way I didn’t expect: the uncertain unlimited possibilities I have yet to discover, and the unexpected surprising things that happen from constant experimentation. I’m obsessed about scientific research because it helps me continue expanding my perspectives that always push me into new exciting directions. It always leads to some kind of creative growth and that’s the only way I truly feel alive.
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