Corbin Ordel
A Cloud In Blue Sky is a interactive web platform that combines digital images, computer vision, machine learning, and text analysis to re-contextualize the vast and ever increasing world-wide catalogue self created digital media.
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A Cloud In Blue Sky is a interactive web platform that combines digital images, computer vision, machine learning, and text analysis to re-contextualize the vast and ever increasing world-wide catalogue self created digital media.
The web interface allows users to upload their own personal images to be analyzed and annotated by a computer vision system called Densecap. This open source software has been to hacked to allow the computer vision created annotations to be corrected, argued against and grown through additional information provided by a human participant. This process will then create new captions that have been influenced and infused with the experiences and considerations of a human viewer. By re-composing and re-rendering our digital image catalogues in this way, I hope to broaden their meaning and backstory through an intentional meditation on the various moments we capture. I believe in doing so we can broaden the scope of understanding regarding the vast spectrum of realities that exist within the context of the everyday human experience will. A Cloud In Blue Sky has been created as an experimental web platform that uses machine learning as a tool to engage our collection of personal digital images in a reflexive manner.
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