Art & AI.

Rachel was commissioned as an Artist by Experiments with Google and Nord Projects to develop Mood Board Search, a tool using Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) to power more nuanced visual search. Employing CAV Camera—an Android app connecting Mood Board Search with a Pixel camera (running on Android 9 or above)—users can ‘try on’ Rachel’s concept ‘Fractured’ for a new way of seeing. Mood Board Search won Best in Category: Expressing in the 2023 IxDA Interaction Awards.

Exploring intuitive applications of AI, the commission came out of Rachel’s longstanding interest in honing computer vision for surfacing artworks with a deep resonance for the human viewer. Before the Google project, Rachel was Co-founder with Dan Ballin of museme, an online platform for artwork discovery through machine learning.

Read more about the machine learning approach, Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs), underpinning the project here.