Toby Whelan

🇬🇧 in 🇳🇴 • Interaction Designer • @umeadesign alum

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My talk from @ixdconf earlier this year is now public!
Exploring ownership in #AI collaborations and music visualisation, the experiment gave rise to a machine-generated piece of music that was collectively conceived by the crowd. Check it out 👀🎧
https://t.co/mNVKS3hROb

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I’ll post explaining the process and revealing the result of the AI-generated, crowd-created piece of music performed onstage soon. Look out!

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What a week at #IxD23! Super fun time - thanks to everyone who attended my talk and shared inspiring conversations.

For those who didn't catch it, the replay is available already for attendees, and will be made public for everyone soon. 💥

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Whether you’re joining the talk or not, the more people take part the cooler the result will be! I’ll share the final piece of music here next week️.

Take part here: https://t.co/nXvsS3aE6b

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As part of my talk next week at @Interaction23 exploring ownership in AI collaborations and music visualisation, a piece of music will be generated using crowd-made visuals as the prompt.

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Below is a public Miro board in which anyone can add, edit or remix the collaboratively shaped prompt. The board will close in a week at midday.

A timelapse will then be used to create a piece of music with machine learning, performed live onstage.

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Searching for inspiration ahead of #ixd23 👏

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I'll be sharing an experiment in crowd-machine collaboration – generating a piece of music from a prompt collectively created by the audience. Should be fun! Keep an eye out for more ahead of #IxD23

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Excited to be joining this amazing bunch of speakers at Interaction 23 @ixdconf ✨

[Interaction Week @ixdconf]

Illuminating today’s Interaction design challenges for tomorrow’s world: The #IxD23 program is finally online! 90+ speakers, with 70+ presentations https://t.co/YgyLuBvVKb

[Umeå Institute of Design @umeadesign]

A massive congrats to alumni Toby Whelan (IxD) and Rebekka Quiroz Wiberg (BFA) who snagged two of the most prestigious awards at this year’s @IxDA @IxDAwards ‘Interaction Awards’. 👏 🥳 https://t.co/SnjqvCIUzY

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@ivankunjasic @umeadesign @gitomasello @Biodesigned Look forward to hearing about it! 💪🦠

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Thank you Kim!

[Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin]

Congratulations to @toby_whelan for winning best student project at the Interaction Awards!

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Check out Agents of Action here: https://t.co/TxcWRtwYuJ

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Thanks to all at @IxDAwards for this honour! And a massive thank you to everyone involved int the project who helped make it happen 🎉 🍾

[Interaction Awards @IxDAwards]

Congratulations Toby Whelan for Best in Category for Best Student!

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A very DIY setup for the @IxDAwards tonight! Excited for the ceremony 🍾#ixd21

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@matteomiddlemis @IxDA @IxDAwards I could never outshine you 💫

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Excited to hear that I’m a finalist in the @ixda Interaction Awards 2021 with my thesis project, Agents of Action!

You can read more about the project (and vote!) ahead of the awards ceremony on the 5th Feb here: https://t.co/r8o0BbwO3f @IxDAwards

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when your hair transplant looks fly af

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Super fun playing with Photoshop's new Neural Filters. Here's me colourised and happy-ised #MachineLearning

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and fine-tune expression