Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
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Brevity wrote a program that produces an “average” of 50 photos tagged the same. This image is what happens if you combine 50 photos tagged with “shadow” and “self” from 50 different Flickr users. |
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When I studied literature we mostly read the classics. Great literature, the canon. But that’s not necessarily what most people actually read. What if instead of comparing AI-generated literature to the literary canon, we tried comparing it to super popular and commercial forms of literature instead? Like the folkebøker that […]
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Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to asked if we recorded it, and yes we did! Here you go! James and Jussi’s books […]
Martin G. L.
This reminds me of a really good piece by artist Jason Salavon. He made a mean average of every Playboy centerfold for the past four decades. On one hand, one can see the sex symbol changing over time (not surprisingly: growing blonder, paler and getting bigger breasts), on the other hand, the woman is pretty much the same in every decade.
Jill
Oh, thanks, Martin! It must be exactly the same technique! Awesome!
There are some other interesting averaged photos from the link you gave, too.
b¯rge
I saw this on flickr too, many of them where really cool! If you’d like to do the same yourself the free Picasa 2 (www.picasa.com) application from Google has that functionality.
Claus
Very Turner-ish.