2017 – 2018, “ConnoiXer the A.I. critic,” a trained neural net machine learning model.
• ConnoiXer is an interdisciplinary project that utilizes state-of-the-art machine learning technology to create an artificial intelligence program that will act as an art critic, judging the quality of painting. It use convolutional neural network model that trained on open-source datasets. The project is still on-going and improving. At its fruition, ConnoiXer will be able to fulfill tasks such as aesthetic value evaluation, painting style/genre classification, and art auctioned price assessment.
• Development environment: Tensorflow, Python, Google Cloud Platform.
• Presented in Hot Digity, Art for Humans exhibitions (May and Dec 2017) at Huret & Spector Gallery, Emerson College.
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2017, “Landscape: Reimagined – AR Chinese Landscape,” an augmented reality project.
• Using Chinese landscape painting as a portal to a virtual world, this project incorporates augmented reality technology with storytelling to raise people’s awareness about the danger of China’s environmental issue. Through the portal, the viewer sees a contaminated world that superimposed by the beautiful depiction of landscape scenery. By showing a juxtaposition between the old, imaginary landscape and the real contaminated problem, this project seeks to raise people’s awareness about the pressing environmental issues in China.
• Development environment: C#, Unity, Maya, ARtoolkit
• Created for VM470: Advanced Interactive Media Project, Emerson College, Boston, MA.
• Presented in Art for Humans exhibition (Dec 2017) at Huret & Spector Gallery, Emerson College.
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2017, “Adventure of Michael Fried,” a 3D first-person Beat ’em up game.
• The player plays as the art critic – Michael Fried, who wants to destroy the art style he dislikes. The player will control Fried to use his tirade to proselytize the art-goers and destroy the artwork he hates.
• Development environment: Maya, Unity, C#.
• Created for VM364: 3D Computer Gaming, Emerson College, Boston, MA.
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