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Topic: How Computers Look at Art

When
Wed Sep 10, 2008
Where
Axis Cafe
Time
7pm
Tags
Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures, Other Literary Arts
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Thanks to cutting edge advancements in computer science, questions and controversies in the study of art are now being answered in ways that were not previously possible. For example, computer analysis is currently being used to authenticate paintings attributed to artists such as Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh. And analysis of perspective, shading, color and form has thrown a wrench into David Hockney's bold claim that as early as 1420, Renaissance artists employed optical devices such as concave mirrors to project images onto their canvases. How do these computer methods work? What can computers reveal about images that even the best-trained connoisseurs, art historians and artist cannot? How much more powerful and revealing will these methods become? In short, how is computer image analysis changing our understanding of art? Come find out.

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  1. Axis Cafe
    1201 8th St, San Francisco, CA