News
New Machine Learning Can Match Ancient Pottery Fragments
Scientists have successfully taught computers to perform the complex task of rapidly sorting thousands of fragmented pottery designs into differing stylistic categories.
Machine learning
Art
How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code”
When machine learning and the use of computers are emphasized in artistic research, in reconstructions, or in beauty contests, viewers often take the results to be scientific, objective, and unbiased. But they are not.
Art
Zoom Through European Art History in An Endless Vortex of Paintings
A software engineer at Google used the computer vision program Deep Dream to create the mesmerizing, slightly dizzying video.
Art
What a Photobook Curated By a Computer Can Teach Us
While "Computed Curation" may seem like it cuts out the human editor, it actually teaches us something else entirely.
In Brief
Seeing Art History with Machine Eyes
A paper released earlier this month by a group of Rutgers University researchers applies computer vision and machine learning to the question of artistic influence.