I guess I'm simply dull-witted, but to me (and to the scientists involved)
the Google study has nothing to do with art: it is an attempt to
understand what and how features were extracted from images. If people wish
to see art in the resulting data visualizations, wonderful, But it is
non-intentional on the part of the creators.
Don
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Data visualization can be used to look at specific questions but it can
> also be used to discover questions. What’s that green spot? Oh. That’s not
> very interesting. What’s that orange stripe? By the same token, pattern
> production can allow enough choices that someone can find something
> worthwhile. So pattern production has a great potential in art and design.
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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