Artificial Emotions

Creative Work
Year: 
2018
Platform/Software: 
Record Status: 
Tags: 
Description (in English): 

In this work, the API Emotions (developed by Microsoft) was used to analyse the faces that appear in famous canonical paintings. What the reader sees is the result of this algorithm, which scores each recognized face with the different categories that, according to the API, compose human emotion: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutrality, sadnessm and surprise.

This is a rereading of the history of art in an algorithmic key.

Description (in Spanish (Castilian)): 

Partiendo de un data-set compuesto por obras maestras de la pintura occidental, se utilizó el API Emotions (un desarrollo de Microsoft) para analizar los rostros que aparecen en dichas pinturas. Lo que puede verse aquí es el resultado del accionar de dicho algoritmo, puntuando, en cada rostro reconocido, las distintas categorías que según el API componen las emociones -enfado, desprecio, desagrado, miedo, felicidad, neutralidad, tristeza y sorpresa-.

Screen shots: 
Image from the work: Emotions detected by the Emotions API on various versions of Andy Warhol's Mao.
The permanent URL of this page: 
Record posted by: 
Laura Sánchez Gómez