The name of this project is inspired by 2 entities.
- The first refers to the science fiction novel, the Invisible Man, written by H. G. Wells.
- Second refers to my job back in Carlo Ratti Associati as an Assistant Curator.
The idea of ‘invisible’, ‘transparent’ and ‘sensing’ flashed into my mind. Therefore, I created this project with my skill on Deep Learning, by combining curatorship and Artificial Intelligence together.
Milano, September 23rd, 2020. (the day when I came up this idea)
Me: Hey Griffin
Griffin: Hi, you are here at the right moment. Take a look.
Me: (Shocked) How could you find them among 100k pieces of art?
Griffin: I may not know everything about it. But I remember every detail… I am good at abstraction
Griffin showed me the most similar image to the ‘query image’ from 110k pieces of art.
similarity search result 01
similarity search result 02
similarity search result 03
similarity search result 04
Me: How? I mean how…
Griffin: I am good at abstraction, I may not know everything about it. But I remember every detail… Come on, take a peek at my mind
Me: …Th.. This is your mind?
Hi, I am Griffin. This is my mind.
Artwork clustered by similarity
Me: Any works recently?
Griffin: Yeah, these are artwork I learned from portraits back in Renaissance.
Me: You have been practicing a lot.
Griffin: Not all by myself. I worked with my friend Azure from Microsoft.
Griffin worked with his friend Azure Face API to extract portraits from artwork collection
Griffin practicing
Faces from Dutch painting back in Renaissance
Painting created by Griffin
Griffin: What is your favorite Dutch artist?
Me: I would say Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Griffin: Why?
Me: When I first visited NL back in 2018, I was mostly impressed by these two artists.
Griffin: I have queried all their artworks. To Rembrandt or Vermeer?
Me: I think we should do both.
Artwork by Rembrandt
Artwork by Vermeer
Artwork by Vermeer
Artwork by Vermeer
Acknowledgement
The source of artwork was acquired from Rijksmuseum developed using the Rijksmuseum API.