AMORE (A distributional MOdel of Reference to Entities), the project being carried out by Gemma Boleda, coordinator of the COLT Research Group of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences (DTLC) at UPF, thanks to an ERC Starting Grant, is one of the ten projects that were selected in the 2017 edition of VERTIGO STARTS. On 27 and 28 March, a day was dedicated to the VERTIGO STARTS programme at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (France); Gemma Boleda participated in a round table on cooperation between science and art.

Theo Rhyn, the alter ego of Kate Aspinall, artist, writer and teacher specializing in large works on paper that dialogue with the fragility of drawing and bodily alteration, ended a three-month artistic residency in the AMORE project with the presentation of her artistic creation inspired by the project and is entitled: AMORE X THEO, Blueprints For An Emergent Personality.

AMORE explores the reference in natural language using computer models

This collaboration was carried out within the VERTIGO STARTS (Science, Technology and the Arts) project, a Coordination and Support Action of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme that has brought technology closer to art through a programme of residencies and other activities.

Theo uses the data of the AMORE model to create works of art

The aim of the residency was to visually explore the possibilities of visual representation of the non-human personality: the personality of the computational model built by the AMORE team, that emerges from the data produced by the project. Theo used the data of the AMORE model to create a series of artworks, including a sketchbook, preparatory collages and six large pieces of collage and ink drawing and painting (see images).

Drawing with mixed technique (graphite, ink, pencil and acrylic on paper), 80x100cm.

The artist THEO approaches the AMORE computer system treating it as if it were a child developing its cognitive skills. Theo analyses the data produced by the computer system and produces responses in the form of emotional sketches to construct an image of the forming personality.

Theo used the data of the AMORE model to create a series of artworks, including a sketchbook, preparatory collages and six large pieces of collage and ink drawing and painting

AMORE explores the reference in natural language using computer models. Its main goal is to understand how people use language to refer to reality, emphasizing the interaction between the conceptual system and the extralinguistic context.

VERTIGO STARTS is a European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation project whose main aim is to promote synergies between artists, cultural institutions, research and development projects in information and communication technologies, and industry. A European project that unites artistic creation and technological research to encourage the dissemination of knowledge.