Just received Andy Deck's 'Visually Similar' Calendar for 2012. We get one ever year - great stuff :-)
About This 'Visually Similar' Calendar After learning what Google's new search-by-image technology could do, I became interested in what it cannot do. I made a colorful scribble in five seconds with handfuls of markers. The search engine matched it (repeatedly) with stained glass from a Prague cathedral that took 600 years to build. The central images in this calendar were used as source images for visual searches that produced the smaller images that surround them. In cases where a matching image cannot be found, the associative algorithm produces rather mixed results, ranging from the absurd to the provocative, and the offensive. What you see is edited. I avoided a great deal of erotica, breast implant photos, Nazi memorabilia, etc. Yet these wrong associations may tell us something about our visual culture, our collective unconscious, and the imaginative realms (databases) that we explore. http://artcontext.net/calendar/2012/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
