Infinite Zoom Through Art History by AI Engineer Alexander Mordvintsev
Alexander Mordvintsev, a Russian computer engineer at Google, created an infinite zoom video that traverses dozens of Western painting masterpieces from van Gogh to Gauguin. The video, published on Nips4Creativity, uses neural network-based AI to generate a fractal-like art history. Mordvintsev previously gained fame for Deep Dream, an AI software that detects and replicates patterns in images, producing psychedelic hallucinations.
Key facts
- Alexander Mordvintsev is a Russian computer engineer working for Google.
- He created Deep Dream, an AI software based on neural networks.
- Deep Dream identifies and replicates forms within images.
- The video was published on Nips4Creativity, a site for machine learning art experiments.
- The video features an infinite zoom through paintings by van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, and Gauguin.
- The zoom creates a fractal-like art history.
- The video was released in 2017.
- The source is Artribune.
Entities
Artists
- Alexander Mordvintsev
- Vincent van Gogh
- Paul Cézanne
- Claude Monet
- Paul Gauguin
Institutions
- Nips4Creativity
- Artribune