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Created by Philipp Schmitt, “Why Would You Want to Picture It” is a sculpture and sound installation engaging with opacity of ‘black box’ machine learning algorithms.
26/09/2019As 2018 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular machines, intricate tools and mesmerising performances and installations to the new mediums for artistic enquiry – so many great new projects have been added to the CAN archive! With your help we selected some favourites.
31/12/2018The chAIr Project is a series of four chairs created using a generative neural network (GAN) trained on a dataset of iconic 20th-century chairs with the goal to “generate a classic”. The results are semi-abstract visual prompts for a human designer who used them as a starting point for actual chair design concepts.
09/08/2018Created by Philipp Schmitt (with Margot Fabre), ‘Computed Curation’ is a photobook created by a computer. Taking the human editor out of the loop, it uses machine learning and computer vision tools to curate a series of photos from an archive of pictures.
13/07/2017Created by Stephan Bogner and Philipp Schmitt, Human Element Inc. investigates how crowdwork, such as Amazon MechanicalTurk, might be woven into everyday life in the future— and explores the topic through three speculative crowdwork services.
18/10/2016Created by Philipp Schmitt, Camera Restricta is a camera that locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can’t take any more pictures here.
08/09/2015Make Longer Cables is a short film including a custom made five-axis robotic arm that is trying to escape monotony by committing suicide.
27/05/2014Created by Philipp Schmitt, “Why Would You Want to Picture It” is a sculpture and sound installation engaging with opacity of ‘black box’ machine learning algorithms.
Tags: drawing / neural network / Philipp Schmitt / sculpture / vector / visualization
As 2018 comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at the outstanding work done this year. From spectacular machines, intricate tools and mesmerising performances and installations to the new mediums for artistic enquiry – so many great new projects have been added to the CAN archive! With your help we selected some favourites.
Tags: 2018 / 3d printing / Adrien Kaeser / algorithm / automation / automato / blockchain / cloud / drawing / EEG / film / furniture / fuse / Giulia Tomasello / interactive / iot / Jessica In / Kimchi and Chips / LUST / machine / machine learning / Maria Smigieska / Matteo Zamagni / Matthias Dörfelt / Mediated Matter / near-future / performance / Philipp Schmitt / Pierre Cutellic / projection / Ralf Baecker / Refik Anadol Studio / rndr / Sound / speculative / Steffen Weiss / tool / Waltz Binaire / weather
The chAIr Project is a series of four chairs created using a generative neural network (GAN) trained on a dataset of iconic 20th-century chairs with the goal to “generate a classic”. The results are semi-abstract visual prompts for a human designer who used them as a starting point for actual chair design concepts.
Tags: ai / automation / collaboration / design / featured / furniture / furniture design / machine learning / neural networks / Philipp Schmitt / Steffen Weiss
Created by Philipp Schmitt (with Margot Fabre), ‘Computed Curation’ is a photobook created by a computer. Taking the human editor out of the loop, it uses machine learning and computer vision tools to curate a series of photos from an archive of pictures.
Tags: algorithm / basiljs / curation / genetic tsp / machine learning / Metadata / neural network / Philipp Schmitt / photography / process / tsne
Created by Stephan Bogner and Philipp Schmitt, Human Element Inc. investigates how crowdwork, such as Amazon MechanicalTurk, might be woven into everyday life in the future— and explores the topic through three speculative crowdwork services.
Tags: crowdworking / device / featured / object / Philipp Schmitt / process / Quartz Composer / speculative / speculative design / Stephan Bogner / student
Created by Philipp Schmitt, Camera Restricta is a camera that locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can’t take any more pictures here.
Tags: camera / censorship / device / flickr / mobile / nodejs / object / Philipp Schmitt / photography
Make Longer Cables is a short film including a custom made five-axis robotic arm that is trying to escape monotony by committing suicide.
Tags: arduino / Environment / interaction / learning / Louis Fischediek / object / Philipp Schmitt / robotics / Stephan Bogner / students