How AI can connect people to art
new ways to discover, learn, and create art through artificial intelligence.
The Met, Microsoft, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated to explore how artificial intelligence could connect people to art. Utilizing the API images, data, and a new keyword data set, the goal was to imagine and develop scalable new ways to discover, learn, and create with one of the world's foremost art collections through artificial intelligence.
The Met, Microsoft, and MIT teams worked for two days to create design concepts and initial prototypes. Each team brought a new perspective on how to use artificial intelligence to connect people and art. Here are five of the AI prototypes that were developed through this cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Gen Studio uses AI to allow users to creatively navigate the shared features and dimensions underlying the 5,000+ years of human creation represented in The Met collection. The user is placed within a map-like model representing the organization of the existing artworks in The Met.
Using Microsoft AI, My Life, My Met will turn an Instagram feed into a work of art. While still in development, the concept is to have the AI analyze posts from Instagram and substitutes the images with the closest matching artworks from The Met’s Open Access collection.
Storyteller fosters new discussions about art by using AI to find artworks in The Met’s collection to accompany any story a user might want to tell, or conversation they’re having.
Tag, That’s It! is a crowdsourcing game that increases the accessibility of The Met’s collection within the Wikimedia universe by partnering humans with machines to fine-tune the subject keyword tags of an artwork.
Artwork of the Day uses Microsoft AI to help individuals find a specific piece of art in the collection that will resonate with them on any given day.
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