![]() Kim Benzel, Curator in Charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Met Sarah Schwettmann, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Knowledge Futures Group, MIT Matthew Ritchie, Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, MIT Mark Hamilton, Software Engineer, Microsoft Applied AIĬhris Hoder, AI Project Manager, Microsoft Applied AI We envision Gen Studio becoming a far-reaching platform that develops appreciation of the immense historical depth and scale of The Met collection, and which identifies new perspectives on the visual relationships between cultures and the production of individual artworks. You can even explore related works and topics through an immersive visual search experience. ![]() Once you have found an inspiring piece you can use another tool in the studio, Generative Explorations, to find its closest visual matches within The Met collection and so discover new areas of interest. Artworks are recombined in new ways, synthesizing possibilities that draw on the styles, materials, and forms found in The Met collection, and surfacing unfamiliar artworks that share similar visual characteristics. You can explore an iterative sequence of dreamlike images-created by AI and choices that you make-interpolate between artworks in the collection. One such experience titled Generist Maps places you within a map-like model representing the inferred structure underlying existing artworks in The Met collection. Within the Gen Studio is a tapestry of experiences based on sophisticated generative adversarial networks (GANs) which allow you to explore, search, and even be immersed within the latent space underlying The Met's encyclopedic collection. Gen Studio uses Microsoft AI to allow you to visually and creatively navigate the shared features and dimensions underlying The Met's Open Access collection. Participants at The Met x Microsoft x MIT hackathon event in December. Isaac Lau, Undergraduate Student, MIT Gen Studio Noelle LaCharite, Applied AI and Cognitive Services, Microsoft Spencer Kiser, Lead Developer, Digital Department, The Met By transforming it into an API, we also envision it being integrated into alarm clocks, bathroom mirrors, and even refrigerators so as to integrate personalized doses of art into everyone’s day. This analysis is specific to you-no two people will receive the same artwork of the day-and so delivers a level of personalization and scalability that would be near impossible to replicate through human endeavor.Īrtwork of the Day could work anywhere in the world and in any language. It does this by analyzing open data sets including your location, weather, news, and historical data. By investing in this collaboration together, The Met, Microsoft, and MIT highlight the potential of artificial intelligence and open data to empower people globally through art.Īrtwork of the Day uses Microsoft AI to find the artwork in The Met collection that will resonate with you today.Įvery day, Artwork of the Day will return a new entry point into The Met collection through an artwork that is relevant in the context of world events and your current circumstances. Through this collaboration, we hope to demonstrate the growing potential of the Open Access program (and the subject keywords data-set in particular), while scaling the global reach and relevance of The Met collection. The Met, Microsoft, and MIT teams broke out into small groups and worked for two days to create design concepts and initial prototypes. MIT provided a select group of students and faculty led by MIT Open Learning and the Knowledge Futures Group, and The Met provided curatorial staff, digital staff, and researchers. Microsoft provided its Garage space at the New England Research & Development (NERD) center, a group of engineers and its AI platform including pre-built APls such as Azure Cognitive Services, conversational Al, and Azure Machine Learning. Utilizing the API images, data, and a new keyword data set, our goal was to imagine and develop scalable new ways for global audiences to discover, learn, and create with one of the world's foremost art collections through artificial intelligence. In December, The Met, Microsoft, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated in a two-day hackathon session to explore how artificial intelligence could connect people to art.
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