Let’s Get Digital art installation at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Refik Anadol’s Machine Hallucination – Renaissance Dreams, 2022

This monumental – 9 metres high – video installation on a LED screen offers a “hallucinating digital interpretation of Italian Renaissance art, setting out from a specific dataset of thousands of paintings produced between the 14th and 17th centuries … to visualise the way the paintings might look when seen collectively in the mind of a machine“. A short video clip can be viewed here!

Below, is a selection of the paintings to be seen in the churches, palaces, museums, galleries, and historic buildings of Florence – works of Botticelli, Caravaggio, Filippo Lippi, Granacci, Raphael, da Vinci – that might have been used for the Renaissance art dataset:

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30th June 2022/by Barbara