Next Generation: AI meets human creativity in Sofia Crespo’s Neural Zoo

FREYA HUTCHINGS
FEBRUARY 11TH 2020

Sofia Crespo is a Berlin-based digital artist and recent Applied Computer Science graduate. She uses machine learning techniques to create unnatural images of nature. With an interest in the workings of the human brain, Crespo looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image formation, and the way that humans express themselves creatively and cognitively recognize their world. This, combined with her fascination of shapes, forms and colors found in nature, results in a series of awe inspiring images that force our brains to engage with nature in entirely new ways.

Crespo's work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understandings of creativity. Indeed, AI may influence the things we make as much as we influence it. If an artists’ equipment has always been an extension of the artist, where does machine learning stand in this balance? 

We spoke with Crespo to hear more about her project, Neural Zoo..

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