Counting Craters on the Moon
Kyriaki Goni
Courtesy of Mohamad Ali-Dib and the DeepMoon team
Counting Craters on the Moon, 2019 Kyriaki Goni
Julius Schmidt dedicated 35 years of his life and produced one of the most detailed lunar maps with around 30.000 craters, while DeepMoon spotted around 7.000 craters in less than 24hrs. In their dialogue they discuss precision, error, dedication, technique, nomenclature, loneliness and patterns.
The artist collaborated with the DeepMoon team, who kindly provided the dataset to be part of the installation and ran the neural network on Schmidt’s map, which the artist digitally stitched together from 25 separated sections.
Speculating upon the possible synergies between human and machine, this work is an invitation to imagine how we can learn from and with machines in order to build different, multiple and, possibly, collective understandings of the surrounding world and its cosmos.
Title: Counting Craters on The Moon
Medium: multimedia installation
Artist: Kyriaki Goni
Year: 2019
Location: On display at Pedion tou Areos
Glossary: neural network