Art curatorial practice is characterized by the presentation of an art collection in a knowledgeable way. Machine processes are characterized by their capacity to manage and analyze large amounts of data. This paper envisages AI curation and audience interaction to explore the implications of contemporary machine learning models for the curatorial world. This project was developed for the occasion of the 2023 Helsinki Art Biennial, entitled New Directions May Emerge. We use the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) collection to re-imagine the city of Helsinki through the lens of machine perception. We use visual-textual models to place indoor artworks in public spaces, assigning fictional coordinates based on similarity scores. We transform the space that each artwork inhabits in the city by generating synthetic 360 art panoramas. We guide the generation estimating depth values from 360 panoramas at each artwork location, and machine-generated prompts of the artworks. The result of this project is an AI curation that places the artworks in their imagined physical space, blurring the lines of artwork, context, and machine perception. The work is virtually presented as a web-based installation on this link http://newlyformedcity.net/, where users can navigate an alternative version of the city while exploring and interacting with its cultural heritage at scale.

翻译：艺术策展实践以知识性方式呈现艺术收藏为特征，机器处理则以管理和分析大量数据的能力为标志。本文通过设想AI策展与观众互动，探讨当代机器学习模型对策展领域的影响。该项目专为2023年赫尔辛基艺术双年展"新方向可能涌现"而开发。我们利用赫尔辛基艺术博物馆（HAM）馆藏，通过机器感知的视角重新构想赫尔辛基这座城市。我们运用视觉-文本模型将室内艺术品置于公共空间，基于相似度分数赋予虚构坐标。通过生成合成360度艺术全景，我们转变每件艺术品在城市中所处的空间，并基于各艺术品位置的360度全景深度估计值及机器生成的提示词引导生成过程。该项目成果呈现为一种AI策展，将艺术品放置于其想象性的物理空间中，模糊了艺术品、语境与机器感知之间的界限。该作品以虚拟方式呈现为网页安装（链接：http://newlyformedcity.net/），用户可在此探索城市替代版本，同时大规模感知并互动其文化遗产。