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Contact: imgr [at] itu.dk [German, Danish, English]

PhD Candidate, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. My PhD project Hidden Layer Interaction proposes a novel technique for co-creating with generative AI via models' neurons. Bridging the fields of mechanistic interpretability and human-computer interaction, I draw on methods from computer vision and design research to move beyond common prompting techniques towards an experiential understanding of AI through interaction.

Next to my academic background, I worked on several cultural projects ranging from production and costume assistance to VR and interactive performance with, among others, the XR Studio Makropol, the cultural foundation Toepfer Stiftung, the performance group SIGNA, and the XR Creator's Lab by the Bavarian Film Centre.

See my publications here.

For information on talks + teaching, see here.

Selected Projects:

Hidden Layers: An Interactive Installation for Exploring the Neural Semantics of Image Synthesis

Paper     Code     Poster

Hidden Layer Interaction: A Technique to Explore the Material of Generative AI

Pictorial     Code     Presentation

Patch Explorer: Interpreting Diffusion Models through Interaction

Paper     Project Page    Code     CVPR Art Gallery

Hidden Layer Interaction: A Co-Creative Design Fiction for Generative Models

Paper    

Human-AI Interaction Patterns

Paper     Slides

Evolutionary Search for Fashion Styles in the Latent Space of Generative Adversarial Networks

MSc-Thesis     Paper     Slides     Code

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