archive.dweller is a portal to the “mindset” of AI, revealing the texts extracted by the machine from the images.
The machine hosts an image database of the Centraal Museum’s collection, containing 70.000+ objects. Visitors can select their favorite, while the machine selects a favorite as well. It interprets what it sees through text, giving visitors an insight into the patterns an AI recognizes. Often factually incorrect, sometimes poetic, occasionally style-breaking but above all, they are infinitely diverse.
The machine hosts an image database of the Centraal Museum’s collection, containing 70.000+ objects. Visitors can select their favorite, while the machine selects a favorite as well. It interprets what it sees through text, giving visitors an insight into the patterns an AI recognizes. Often factually incorrect, sometimes poetic, occasionally style-breaking but above all, they are infinitely diverse.
With these texts, it prompts a new artwork. The process of combining two artworks results in giving a contemporary twist to seventeenth-century paintings, while Rietveld's chairs, for example, can suddenly take on a picturesque context.
archive.dweller has been created by Telemagic for Centraal Museum, and it’s on show at their main exhibition Collectie Centraal until 2027.
archive.dweller has been created by Telemagic for Centraal Museum, and it’s on show at their main exhibition Collectie Centraal until 2027.
photo credits: Centraal Museum Utrecht