Can a digital manufacturing lab become a reference point for artistic and creative production? Last week, the students on the Didactics and Teaching Methodology for Art History Masters Programme returned to the Fab Lab at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym, supervised by Matteo Viscogliosi, designer, maker and coach.
This didactic experience served as the basis for an article by Prof. Maria Stella Bottai, Faculty of Humanities at Sapienza University of Rome, published on the Art'usi magazine.
We would like to share the beginning of the article with you:
During a lesson held as part of the Didactics and Teaching Methodology for Art History Programme at Sapienza University of Rome, Matteo Viscogliosi from the Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Rome was our guest. Last year, we developed the “passepartout” inspired by Boetti with Mr. Viscogliosi.
Speaking about the influence of digital tools on Art History courses, we viewed the video on Project “The Next Rembrandt.” It addresses the creation, via artificial intelligence of a portrait that simulates Rembrandt’s style with extreme accuracy, producing a work that could be virtually added to the artist’s catalogue. The project was supported by ING and Microsoft with the consultancy of the main Dutch museums hosting works by Rembrandt, including the Mauritshuis and the Rembrandt House Museum.
The Next Rembrandt. Experiments in AI and Art History
by Maria Stella Bottai
Art'usi. Art in Education
December 13, 2020
