WEEK 1

Jan 15 T - Everything You Need to Know about This Course        

Jan 16 W Midnight Assignment 1 Due!

Jan 17 Th - Student Presentation: Interests and Specialties

WEEK 2

Jan 22 T - What We Do at the Intersection of Art and ML

Jan 24 Th - Student Presentation: Interests and Specialties

WEEK 3

Jan 28th - Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI [5:30-8:30, Miller ICA]

Jan 28 M Midnight Assignment 2 Due!

Jan 29 T - Style Transfer, Guest Speaker: Sey Min “data, visualization, and machines learning us“                

Jan 31 Th - NO CLASS [Snow Day]

WEEK 4

Feb 4 M Midnight Assignment 3 Due!

Feb 5 T - CNN, Fast Style Transfer

Feb 7 Th - Neural Doodle, DeepDream

WEEK 5

Feb 12 T - Project Elaboration with TAs

Feb 14 Th - GANs, PGGAN - Generative algorithms overview, DCGAN | CycleGAN | Pix2Pix demo

WEEK 6

Feb 18 M Midnight Assignment 4 Due!

Feb 19 T - Assignment 4 presentation and feedback

Feb 21 Th - Assignment 4 presentation and feedback

WEEK 7

Feb 26 T - BigGAN demo, Generative algorithms: GANs, DCGANs, CycleGANs, Pix2Pix (PC-GAN, PGGANs, Pix2Pix HD, 2D3D, Everybody Dance Now)

Feb 28 Th - Guest Lecture: Austin Dill, Songwei Ge “Point Cloud GAN, Amalgamated Deep Dream, Partitioned Deep Dream”, Guest Lecture: Ardavan Bidgoli “DeepCloud: Data-driven Generative Design Tool for Point Clouds”   

WEEK 8

Mar 4 M Midnight Final Project Group Assembly Due!

Mar 5 T - RNN Methods for Music and Literature

Mar 7 Th - LSTM

Mar 10th S Midnight Assignment 5 - Recommended deadline. Anyone who wants to work during the Spring Break, please submit it by March 18th Monday midnight.

SPRING BREAK

Mar 12 T - NO CLASS

Mar 14 Th - NO CLASS

WEEK 9

Mar 19 T - Assignment 5 presentation and Feedback

Mar 21 Th - Assignment 5 presentation and Feedback

WEEK 10

Mar 26 T - Image Captioning, sketch RNN

Prof. Kang’s office hours for final project proposal discussion: Tuesday 2:30-5:00 pm,

Wednesday 1:00-4:00 pm

Mar 27 W Midnight Final Project Proposal Due!

Mar 28 Th - Guest Speaker: Barnabas Poczos “Embedding and Visualization, Reinforcement Learning and Stroke-Based Painting”

WEEK 11

Apr 2 T - More MLArt Examples, CAN (lecture room until 12:30),  Conversation with Artists of the Above, Below, After, Until exhibition (at the Miller ICA from 12:30)

Apr 3 W Midnight Assignment 6 Due!

Apr 4 Th - Assignment 6 Presentation and Feedback

WEEK 12

Apr 9 T - Guest Speaker: Zach Lipton “Interpretability of ML and the Role of Creativity”

Apr 11 Th - NO CLASS [Spring Carnival]

WEEK 13

Apr 16 T -  Assignment 6 Presentation and Feedback

Apr 18 Th - Final Project Meetings

WEEK 14

Apr 23 T - Final Project Meetings

Apr 25 Th Noon Final Project Due!

Apr 25 Th - Exhibition Rehearsal

WEEK 15

Apr 30 T - EXHIBITION  (Final Project Presentation)

May 1 W Midnight Final Project Report Due!

May 2 Th - Final Project Documentation Submission and Feedback Discussion