There has always been a strong virtuous feedback between Art and Technology. Ultimately birthing moonshot technology is creation and shares much in common with Art. Xlabs Artist in Action program was created to be a constant source of creativity for our team. We were honored to work with Goldin+Senneby for the first of many collaborations. The art we jointly created has been shown by these great artists in Australia, Sweden and now Germany in the world famous Nome Gallery of Berlin!
“Secrets of Trade presents key works from Goldin+Senneby’s recent interrogations of financial trading, the art market, and artificial intelligence. The artistic collaborators’ projects conceptualize ways in which these three powerful engines are entwined; how they at turns shape and respond to contemporary society while operating at a mysterious remove from the general public.
Goldin+Senneby’s practice – often involving elements of outsourcing, performance, and collaboration with experts – could be said to enact this same mystique. Their artworks uncover something of the shrouded relationships between art and money, while also spinning further fictions from them.”
The Curators at Nome asked Xlabs CTO Travis Dirks to say a bit about the art work:
“This art is a representation of the AI used to predict global art prices from socio-economic data. It tells us something about society’s relationship to art. These visualizations depict a very high dimensional space of all the available data. The image itself is a visual representation of the complexity that an AI faces when attempting to learn in the real world. It is also a visual representation of one of the steps in the AI process used to make our predictions – that of looking at the data in this space of correlations and using the natural groupings in the data to make the problem simpler – a task called dimensional reduction. We are reducing that dimensionality by representing each dimension as a single point in a 3 dimensional space. The structure of the image is determined by the correlations between points. So this is a very high dimensional space selected for it’s correlation to the prediction of Art prices, projected into a 4 dimensional space (3 spacial dimensions, plus time) with physical dynamics related to the high dimensional cross correlations that has been evolved and frozen at a particular point in time and further projected down into a two dimensional image.”