Consonance is a project exploring how artificial intelligence can visually interpret poetry. By combining the power of poetry with the infinite visual range of AI, we can create entirely original content that is simultaneously art, poetry and music.
Consonance is a collaboration between the writers at Seamus Heaney Centre and local company Armchair and Rocket, drawing on the unique talents of Belfast digital artist Glenn Marshall and his world-leading work in artificial intelligence.
For our first project, we have worked with award-winning poet Stephen Sexton to create 4 pieces that demonstrate the process and its potential. Each piece is between 1.5 minutes and 3 minutes long – individual works of art created by using Generative Adversarial Networks to produce images that are the best efforts of these neural networks to understand and illustrate poetry.
Image from Terrestrials
Consonance is funded by Future Screens NI.
Future Screens NI comprises the two higher education institutions (Ulster University and QUB) and several key industrial partners central to the creative economy in the region. The Partnership has, from this, developed a definition of, and a working model for, the creative industries in NI which is focused on participation, cultural and economic growth, and social and economic regeneration placing the Partnership as a leading developmental catalyst in this NI sector.
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