The method of seeing work, or seeing the rest, is much less spontaneous and pure than we are inclined to imagine. A big a part of seeing relies upon upon behavior and conference.
– from Methods of Seeing (1972) by John Berger
In 2018, the London-based digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira teamed up with the Brazilian artist Bruno Moreschi to investigate how algorithms would interpret modern artwork. For the undertaking, the duo ran 654 works from the Van Abbemuseum within the Dutch metropolis of Eindhoven via a selfmade image-recognition program composed of six completely different commercially out there AIs. In Recoding Artwork, Moreschi and Pereira information us via the museum’s assortment as considered by AIs, revealing their principally unusual, usually comedic readings that each simplify and broaden upon the artworks’ meanings. To distinction AI and human views, Moreschi and Pereira additionally requested Amazon Mechanical Turk employees – digital labourers who tackle duties that computer systems can’t but do – so as to add their very own reactions to the artworks, including one other wealthy layer to the undertaking. The result’s an entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of subjectivity, capitalism and machine studying that reveals how AIs mirror the imperfect people who prepare them.
