mosAIcs & brAIns: engaging mosaics emerging from art, aesthetics, and AI with Ralf Wessel
Ralf Wessel from Washington University in St. Louis will be presenting this week's Saturday Science lecture on mosAIcs & brAIns: engaging mosaics emerging from art, aesthetics, and AI.
Can science predict human engagement with art? Can such predictive insight, combined with established principles of artistic design, be used to generate engaging artworks from the emergent properties of artificial intelligence? In this talk, I present how these questions inform the individualized design of both Byzantine and contemporary mosaic art. Drawing on concepts from aesthetics, art design, and AI, I explore how computational models of perception and engagement can be integrated with historical mosaic traditions to create emergent artworks that resonate with viewers at multiple perceptual and cognitive levels.