Last week we hosted a visit from Mario Kilngemann. An artist, freelance, creative coder and practitioner of ‘computational craft’, Mario has been doing some fascinating work with the images in the collection, creating a set of reimagined images.
Based on the initial manual creation of image training sets, Mario has used the data clustering algorithm DBSCAN to locate similar images with remarkable results. The image sets that he has generated - which range from ‘sad-looking women’ to horses to decorative motifs to ‘forty four gentlemen who look like forty four’ – not only offer fascinating new insights into the content of the collection, but the sorting of clustering of images has significant implications in terms of being able to identify re-cut and re-used illustrations.
Based on the initial manual creation of image training sets, Mario has used the data clustering algorithm DBSCAN to locate similar images with remarkable results. The image sets that he has generated - which range from ‘sad-looking women’ to horses to decorative motifs to ‘forty four gentlemen who look like forty four’ – not only offer fascinating new insights into the content of the collection, but the sorting of clustering of images has significant implications in terms of being able to identify re-cut and re-used illustrations.
Mario’s work also has considerable potential in terms of measuring the texture and saturation of images in order to distinguish between reproductive techniques and using image segmentation in order to locate similarities between images.
After a productive day of finding out about Mario’s work and exchanging ideas, we enjoyed dinner and some drinks in an ‘authentic’ Cardiff pub. We very much hope to collaborate with Mario in future and were delighted to have had the chance to find out more about his work.
After a productive day of finding out about Mario’s work and exchanging ideas, we enjoyed dinner and some drinks in an ‘authentic’ Cardiff pub. We very much hope to collaborate with Mario in future and were delighted to have had the chance to find out more about his work.
 | For more of Mario’s work, see: http://incubator.quasimondo.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/ Twitter: @quasimondo |
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