Sketchy recognition/2020

2020 Installation

For the online installation of Sketchy Reconition, we plan a multiform online publication that (1) documents the experiences of the pianofabriek installation, (2) provides addition context in the form of text, software probes, and video, and (3) an invitation to participation through downloadable/printable PDF coloring book (photos of complete drawings can be uploaded to the site / archive), and an online discussion / collective drawing session.

Materials we have

• Detourned carmentis -- pianofabriek interface + materials
• Coloring book(s) (the PDF of contour forms used in pianofabriek) (TODO: upload)
• The animation cells -- photos taken in the installation as people were drawing (todo: are these complete?)
• The scans of completed drawings (made at pianofabriek) (todo: upload)
• Previous notes including links to first selection process of contours
• Musical instruments, hygenic pseudo-neutral space of the musem.
• Classification that comes from the quickdraw data set. (also culturally heavy)
• The mismatch of how things are (mis) classified...
• https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
• Saskia's story (todo: link to transcription)
• Computer vision problematics...

Inspirations/Links to related work

• COCO data set --- work of ruben + cristina https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/plotting-data-acts-of-collection-and-omission-publication-launch/ INSPIRATION FOR LONG_FORM PUBLICATION: http://plottingd.at/a/
• Quickdraw animations...

Probes

• Contour drawing (todo: pick a exemplary form /object)
• Sketch recognition (version like the "original" project)
• Combing sketch recognition with contour drawing...
• Sketch Recognition + Contour + Rotation (demonstrate how recognition changes as an object is rotated)

Possible outcomes / forms

• Online publication with text, probes, video
• PDF / Extended Comic book
• Workshop / Online discussion / Collective drawing session

Text

Here an attempt at a start of the text...