Painting A Portrait Using Machine Learning Mistakes

I’m Veronica Huacuja, a plastic artist, and an online art teacher. I have some good practical tips for your painting process. Hope you find them interesting.

Have you ever heard of the term Machine Learning?: "Is defined as a discipline of artificial intelligence that provides machines the ability to automatically learn from data and past experiences to identify patterns and make predictions with minimal human intervention." (1)

Machine Learning (ML) is applied to different fields, such as "medicine, email filtering, speech recognition, computer vision" (2), and I add, forensics (for facial reconstruction of the deceased, to identify offenders, among other uses).

A SIDE COMMENT. In this last field, there’s an ethical public discussion about the rights that could be trespassed if a governmental (or other official institution) uses ML to make up the profile of any individual (not an offender) in society, e.g. using the driver license frontal photo.

MAKING UP THE WORK. I achieved this artwork using very interesting initial resources, such as the official frontal mug shot of a young and anonymous offender (3), and the work of the artist Adam Chin, who is experimenting on the ID reconstruction of U.S. offenders with his ML computer program. The title of his project is "Front and Profile". (4)

This is the data sheet of the digital portrait I created using the cited sources, which I'm presenting:

Title: Inmate #12
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Media: Digital Art
Size: 12,024 x 9,622 px, 300 dpi
Year: 2021
Collection: The Relentless

ARTISTIC PROCESS. The Adam Chin’s LM profile "portrait" presents many mistakes and inconsistencies because Chin's computer program is still in its initial phase. These “mistakes“, from a creator point of view, are the interesting part. In the artwork, I reproduced the computer's mistakes.

LET’S MAKE A MEANINGFUL REFLECTION OF THE ABOVE. As artists, would it be worthwhile to explore other fields and to include them in our artistic process?

Please write your opinions in the comment section. It will generate a very interesting dialogue.

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1 https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/articles/what-is-ml/#:~:text=Machine%20learning%20(ML)%20is%20defined,predictions%20with%20minimal%20human%20intervention.

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

3 I tried to identify the young offender (state governmental public source, name, bio, etc.), but my efforts were unsuccessful.

4 https://sfcamerawork.org/front-and-profile