Recoding Art | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

On an October evening, the digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira sent an e-mail to Brazilian artist Bruno Moreschi. The message marked the beginning of a research that involved creating an unprecedented platform that centralized 7 comercial Artificial Intelligences to read the collection of Van Abbemuseum, a Dutch museum of contemporary art. In the results, Moreschi and Pereira looked for glitches, errors and unexpected readings by the AIs – but they also encountered algorithms that nivelate the artistic subjectivity to the capitalist logic. Underpinning it all was the crucial but invisible labour of Amazon Mechanical Turkers.

Source: https://brunomoreschi.com/Recoding-Art-Van-Abbemuseum-collection

Researched by Graziele Lautenschlaeger

Situation machine vision is used in

Recoding Art (Classifying Art)

Notes

Subversive is tagged to capture how the AI questions art institutions and their power to make sense of art.
The narrator calls it "brutal" truth when most of the artworks are interpreted as products or when AI classifies art as advertisement.
The classification done by the AI or even the Mechanical Turkers, who are asked to describe the artworks, is alien to the institutional classification of artworks, hence, it also gives the impression that the machine vision is flawed.

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