This past fall artist Refik Anadol used AI to transform the entire collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
On a large screen in the museum lobby you could watch his AI program continuously create and re-create ever evolving digital images using the MOMA collection as its source and inspiration. At on-emotions.com you’ll find a photo of one of these images.
The point of the project Anadol said, was “to make the invisible visible.” The project was called “Unsupervised.” MOMA called it “a meditation on technology, creativity, and modern art.”
After watching these digital images for a few minutes I began to observe people watching the screen and noted how they were utterly mesmerized and never left their seats.
In the actual museum, most people only stand in front of a painting for a few seconds, but this ever evolving collage of images had them transfixed.
Which left me wondering if what Anadol had actually made visible was not necessarily these new digital images, but how easy it is for us to walk away from the physical world of canvas, paint, and the finest art human hands and imagination could create, and accept and embrace instead, pixels.
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