Video: Star dust. Portraits from images of the Hubble telescope
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Hubble telescope for a long time it was the main tool with the help of which Mankind learned the secrets of the distant corners of the Cosmos. Now it can be safely attributed to contemporary artists, because pictures from Hubble became the basis for the creation of thousands human portraits.
Sergio Albiac, an artist from Barcelona, for many years followed the activities of the Hubble orbiting telescope, which sent to Earth a huge number of highly detailed images of different parts of the universe. As a result, inspired by what he saw, the artist decided to use these photographs as a basis for his work.
He has developed special software that can automatically organize images from the Hubble by color and shade, so that later he can create human portraits from them. Thus, the artist decided to combine science, art, humanity, the universal concept of beauty and the infinity of the universe.
As a result, the computer has already created more than one thousand two hundred human portraits for Sergio Albiak, the basis for which the machine itself is looking for on the Internet. This is very different from the similarly conceived project by Alex Harrison Parker, who manually compiled a copy of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night from the same images.
Albiak, in this project, also decided to demonstrate the autonomous capabilities of a computer, which can work indefinitely independently of the artist, creating works on the patterns of the latter. The author deliberately distanced himself from the process of producing portraits from images of the Hubble telescope in order to bring the matter to the absolute.
Sergio Albiak plans to stop the project at the moment when the computer generates 100 thousand paintings. This round figure will become a clear demonstration of the capabilities of computers in the field of contemporary art, albeit under the guidance of a person.
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