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C/C Past Installations

Space, Time, and Artificial Intelligence

Curriculum / Collection
Artist rendering courtesy of Dongseop Shin

ARCHITECTURE 509 – Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Faculty Curator: Matias del Campo (Architecture)

On view: Fall 2021

Can artificial intelligence (AI) dream new visions of architecture into being? That’s the fundamental question of Space, Time, and Artificial Intelligence.

Students in the class create AI neural networks that emulate mental processes such as dreaming and hallucinating, and then provide these AI computer programs with large sets of images from UMMA’s digital collection database. The AI is trained to understand the visual qualities of these images and then use those qualities as the basis for imagining new architectural structures and styles. The resulting designs are neither completely authored by a specific artist/architect nor by the algorithm, questioning agency and authorship in art and architecture.

Works Included In This Collection

In this course, the entirety of the UMMA collection will serve as data points for the neural network being developed.

Can artificial intelligence dream new visions of architecture into being?

Matias del Campo (Architecture)

SUPPORT

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.