Content Aware Studies Series

Content Aware Studies series initiate an inquiry into the possibilities of AI and particularly Machine Learning to reconstruct and generate lost antique greek and roman friezes and sculptures by the means of algorithmic analysis of 3D scans of antiquity. It concerns about the potentialities of methods involving data, ML, AI and other forms of automations turning into semi-and-quasi-archeological knowledge production and interpretations of history and culture in the era of ubiquitous computation. Some of these algorithmic outputs are turned into new machine-fabricated sculptures uncanny in their algorithmic integrity. They render the work of synthetic agency that lends a faithful authenticity to the forms, while also producing bizarre errors and algorithmic normalisations of forms previously standardised and regulated by the canon of Hellenistic and Roman art.