# Portaging: Combining generative AIs

Kory W. Mathewson · 2022-12-10 · https://korymathewson.com/portaging/ · Live performance combining artificial intelligence-based generative models for text and images. Co-creative artists build a shared language and devise a shared narrative together.

![Portaging](https://korymathewson.com/portaging/images/portaging.png)

## What is PORTAGING?

Portaging involves carrying watercrafts over land between bodies of water. In the water, the boat carries the humans and vice-versa on land. Portaging requires human cooperation with artificial tools and natural elements of earth, wind, and water. 

Portaging extends a single human's capabilities into a collective that is augmented by technology. In portaging, the journey into the unknown traverses the collaborative ridge between human and non-human, natural and artificial, physical and mechanical.

**PORTAGING** is a live performance combining artificial intelligence-based generative models for text and images. Co-creative artists build a shared language and devise a shared narrative together. The journey along narrative arcs is buoyed and accelerated by generative models.

**PORTAGING**'s interactive digital performance immerses audiences in a shared experience where their reactions change the way the stories unfold. Active audience interaction encourages the way the narrative heads, much like the wind in the sails of a boat. 

**PORTAGING** in an exploration of artificial intelligence and co-creative artistry which produces an ever-evolving journey into the unknown.

PORTAGING presented at the [NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design](https://neuripscreativityworkshop.github.io/2022/). PORTAGING uses [Dramatron](https://korymathewson.com/dramatron) for story co-writing. 

## Credits 

```
Creators 	
  Tom White         @dribnet
  Kory Mathewson    @korymath
  Piotr Mirowski    @piotrmirowski
  Juliette Love     @juliettelove29
  Hannah Johnston   @hannahjdotca

Generators 	
  Jason Baldridge   @jasonbaldridge
  Irina Blok        @irinablok
  Josh Larson       @godatplay
  kaliyuga          @kaliyuga_ai    

Models
  Google’s Parti
  OpenAI’s DALL-E2
  MidJourney
  Stable Diffusion
  CLIP-CLOP
  CLIPDraw

Dramatron is created by 
  Piotr Mirowski
  Kory Mathewson
  Jaylen Pittman
  Juliette Love 
  Richard Evans
```