The winner of the has been unveiled at Tate, London. Based in Treviso, communication research centre was selected as this year’s prize recipient for its innovative project entitled RECOGNITION, proposed by team members Angelo Semeraro, Coralie Gourguechon and Monica Lanaro. The annual award celebrates digital creativity in all its forms, and this year challenged entrants to use a form of artificial intelligence to explore, investigate or understand British art in the Tate collection.
Established in 1994 and part of the Benetton Group, Fabrica offers to young researchers from around the world a one-year scholarship within disciplines such as design, visual communication, photography, interaction, video, music andÌýjournalism. Fabrica’s winning ideaÌýis anÌýA.I.Ìýproject that will uncover the hidden links between current events and art from the Tate collection. RECOGNITIONÌýwill use powerful algorithms and machine learning to search through Tate’s vast digital collection and archive; its mission is to unearth hidden relationships between how the world has been represented in image form, in the past and present.
Fabrica receives a £15,000 prize and a £90,000 development budget to turn their proposalÌýinto a reality online and at Tate Britain in late summerÌý2016. Anyone will be able to watch the machine at work as it produces a stream of curated images online as a virtual exhibition.ÌýRECOGNITION encourages us to look afresh at the art of the past through the lens of our worldÌýtoday.
The 2016ÌýIKÌýPrize, in partnership with Microsoft, invited an expertÌýÌýto select a shortlist of four ideas in response to a brief on artificial intelligence. Finalists for the competition’s third edition include: The Wandering Intelligence of Art by Ross Frame and Tom Wyatt; OSCAR by Unit Lab (Mike Vanis, Cindy Strobach and Amina Abbas Nazari); and Texting Tate by Michel Erler.
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1. Fabrica building,ÌýVilla Pastega Manera. Courtesy of Fabrica.
