The Connoisseur Machine
Neural networks enter the authentication lab. What they see in brushwork the eye cannot — and what they miss entirely.
Issue No. 1Commissioned
The Journal of Art, Provenance, Science & Civilization
The Journal of Art, Provenance, Science & Civilization
Editorial Section
Machine learning, robotics, computational creativity, and digital scholarship — including what algorithms are now doing inside the authentication laboratory.
Neural networks enter the authentication lab. What they see in brushwork the eye cannot — and what they miss entirely.
Machine reading of archives and auction records, and the provenance gaps it can and cannot close.
When an image has no maker and no material, what is left of provenance?
We welcome rigorous, non-promotional writing on machine learning in cultural and scientific work.