Counting Craters on the Moon, 2019

Edition of 3 + 2AP.

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As a result of advances in machine learning, our understanding of today's world is ever more mediated by machines. What challenges does deep learning bring to human-based knowledge? What do machines see and do differently than humans? How can artificial intelligence enhance new forms of experience and understanding?

The installation presents an imaginary encounter between the third director of the National Observatory in Athens, astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825-1884) and the neural network DeepMoon, which was developed in 2018, both of which set out to count the craters on the moon. Speculating upon the possible synergies between human and machine, the artist invites us to imagine how we can learn from and with machines in order to build different, multiple and, possibly, collective understandings of the surrounding world and its cosmos.