UN Project wanted by Davide Rondoni, the poet who has been president of Mufoco for three years, the only public institution dedicated entirely to photography with a collection of almost 2,000,000 images, divided into 28 photographic funds and a library that contains 20,000 volumes. The experiment is to analyze the Museum’s heritage of the museum’s assets of the neural Clip (Language-IMAGE pre-Training) contrastive (analyzing a dataset of over 12,000 representative images of the over 60,000 cataloged and digitized archive-to interrogate it with keywords such as: consciousness, soul, death, birth, conflict, family.
The algorithm selects the images by responding to query (questions to a database according to research criteria) that revolve around the question: what does it mean today, in the era of artificial intelligence, being human?
Let’s go back to our experiment, Rondoni interrogates himself: “What is meant by being human? It appeals to humanity in the face of barbarism – but is the barbarism born from humanity? What is the border, the resource, the seal of the human being? Are we an imperfect device?”
From these and other questions the desire to create the exhibition, entrusted to Chiara Bardelli Nonino, curator and careful observer of the phenomena of photography, active in periodic publishing for which he writes and selects photographic works, was born.
Chiara, in turn, involves Emanuele Amighetti, art director of Harper’s Bazaar Italia, who deals with the setting up. The result is an elegant and contemporary exhibition to which another experiment contributes in the animated experiment.
The artist Giacomo Mercuriali, applying the same process used for the exhibition, but analyzing a vast dataset of over 400 million couples image-test you find on the Internet with a local search engine created ad hoc, to respond to conceptual, philosophical, abstract query, exactly as Nonino did for the exhibition.
The exhibition
Animated. God Human Animal Machine Curated by Chiara Bardelli Nonino,
With an installation by the visual artist Giacomo Mercuriali and the art direction of Emanuele Amighetti
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