Image Models

Time Magazine Covers - Cultural Analytics Lab

Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the U.S.A. - The Pudding

Modern art Color filter— Google Arts & Culture

Play a Kandinsky — Google Arts & Culture

  1. Manovich, Lev. “Cultural Analytics”  

   - http://manovich.net  

   Explores large-scale visual analysis of cultural artifacts, including massive image sets from social media.

  1. Phototrails: Visualizing Millions of Instagram Photos  

   - http://phototrails.net  

   A project demonstrating how images can be treated as data for geographic, temporal, and aesthetic pattern analysis.

  1. Georgia Tech: Digital Media & Visual Analytics  

   - Digital Media Program  

   Showcases student projects that apply creative, design-centric methods to image-based data in art and interactive installations.

  1. Runway ML  

   - https://runwayml.com  

   A no-code/low-code tool for computer vision and machine learning applications, allowing designers to experiment with image classification, color extraction, and generative models.

  1. Google Arts & Culture Experiments  

   - https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment  

   Features interactive experiments that treat artworks, historical images, and photographs as data, often combined with metadata like location or period.

  1. New Media Installations and Image Data  

   - Paolo Cirio: Known for turning images scraped from social media into large-scale data art pieces, provoking discussions on privacy and identity.  

   - Refik Anadol: Uses AI-driven visuals to transform image datasets into immersive environments.

  1. Image Databases and Datasets  

   - COCO (Common Objects in Context): https://cocodataset.org  

     Useful for seeing how images are annotated and categorized for machine learning.  

   - Google Open Images: https://storage.googleapis.com/openimages/web/index.html      - Open Images Dataset V7

     A large dataset with labeled images for academic and design experimentation.

  1. Data Feminism (Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein)  

   - https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/  

   While not exclusively about images, it provides critical frameworks for thinking about data ethically and inclusively, which is crucial when dealing with visual content and user-generated imagery.