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Cynthia Hua
ArtistCYNTHIA X. HUA is a researcher and artist, focusing on artificial intelligence. Her Works explore the processes behind algorithmic technologies that tie them to culture, identity and economy. Hua has shown works at the SF Arts Institute, The Midway, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and other institutions. She was most recently an incubator member at Gray Area and is an incoming incubator member at The New Museum as part of the NEW INC Cultural Incubator for innovating museum experiences. She has previously been awarded fellowships/residencies from Signal Culture, The Laboratory and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. She has spoken about technology and culture at events such as Theorizing the Web, Tech Poetics and Creative Tech Week. Her work on AI-related artwork has been featured by CCTV, VentureBeat, Synced and other outlets. Cynthia originally studied media theory at Yale, writing her thesis on Internet age media.
AI Animation (Bringing Drawings to Life with Machine Learning) is an interactive digital art project and computational framework that utilizes machine learning algorithms to transform static, hand-drawn illustrations into dynamic, animated AR experiences. By training neural networks on keyframe motion patterns, character rigging, and gesture recognition, the system automatically infers motion trajectories from physical sketches. The project bridges traditional drawing techniques with generative artificial intelligence, turning static 2D artwork into responsive, animated digital entities that can be viewed and interacted with in real-time augmented reality environments.
