László Moholy-Nagy was a visionary artist who bridged the gap between art and technology at the BAUHAUS, He believed that technology could be a powerful tool for artists, His artwork Black-red equilibrium (1922) —stripped an artwork down to its fundamental elements of shape, color, and form. The shapes are perfectly coordinated to the colour light spectrum evoking the feeling of a canvas that was transported from a perfected utopian world.
This perspective and intention parallels the way computer vision algorithms analyze and interpret visual data. Just as Moholy used photograms to reduce objects to their essence, my developed DATA VISION aims to continue this legacy by simplifying and refining the world through its data . In essence, Moholy-Nagy refers to photography as the mechanical process of representation, DATA VISION is the mechanical process of detection and conceptualism.
review: 5/5 – necessary read for the zeitgeist conceptualist and gives new insight into modernist movement.
(IMAGE ABOVE SHOWS PRELIMINARY DEMO OF DATA VISION OBJECT DETECTION CODE RUNNING IN REAL TIME VIA WEBCAM)