Piece description from the artist
I have this listed as a Limited Edition because it should be included in the existing Limited edition of the drawing "Learning Circuit".
Learning Circuit was originally conceived as an artist's visual comment on AI and neural network algorithms. First there is the deliberate determinate algorithm coding and digital hardware provided by an engineer(s). Then a new set of heuristics is imposed upon that structure through training the physical and virtual "machine".
The drawing interprets these ideas a superimposed related, but not matching, patterns.
Given my recent forays into AI as a tool for image processing, it seemed fitting to let some AI image processing software reinvent and scale the drawing. One thing about AI that others have noted is it's tendency fabricate information. Some say it tells lies. In the Visual sphere, AI processing tends to fabricate visual information. It "makes up" details and brushstrokes, color bleeds and textures. Often these inventions are mappings of very common and typical ways of painting, just applied at unusual scales and in odd contexts.
This tendency is visible in the interior structure of some of the lines in the scaled up image. Traditional optical and deterministic algorithm upscaling would produce flat color or grainy paper textures or blurred out versions of ink texture. The AI instead paints tiny murals of surrealistic style brushstrokes and textures INside each grayscale or colored line.
This is a TurningArt exclusive limited edition print available in editions of 100.
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor at the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, and a start-up and commercialization consultant.
Even during periods of intense activity as a scientist, Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information. While she majored in Materials Science at MIT, she also obtained a second degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Visual arts have managed to permeate her technical work; during her Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst, she completed a thesis that required advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insight and information that now influences much of her artwork.
Dr. Valluzzi’s work has been included in private collections across the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Dubai and Malta, and in the corporate collection of "Seyfarth Shaw" Boston law offices around Boston. She has a selection of pieces on loan to the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Department as indoor public art. Her accomplishments include having published thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, having made several scientific patents, having been a subject matter expert for an encyclopedia chapter, and having been invited to speak at science talks across the US, Europe, and Japan.
Her newsletter is a good source of ongoing information: http://eepurl.com/daiLQ
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