The Art of Seeing: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

In this two-part presentation, art historian Emily L. Spratt and computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal explore the uses of vision technology for the analysis of art and its philosophical implications for both aesthetic theory and artificial intelligence. Through an investigation of the most fundamental questions computer scientists are confronted with in giving a machine the capacity …