I was pleased to hear that my artwork Internet Search Result 2012-08-14 (‘square’) was accepted for the art exhibition associated with the Contemporanea Duemiladodici contemporary music festival in Udine later in the month. There should be an online version of the exhibition later this month.
The piece consists of a square image selected from Google Images search results from the word “square”. I’m getting increasingly interested in this sort of “auto-generated” art, both for what the process says about creativity (what role am I playing here? What role the individual creators of the images? What the computer infrastructure?) and for the serendipity of images thrown up by this process. More discussion of this in a paper coming out soon in Digital Creativity; email me if you want an advance copy.
Congratulations, Colin! This is very interesting – something like an approximation to the platonic ideal of “square” or “squareness” – the set of all squares? And is this somehow how we define the squareness class? If we could somehow project a given object onto a set of images like this – could we ‘recognise’ squareness in a machine cognition sense? – are we constructing some kind of inferential AI by accident?