The project, "Mind to Image", used an open-source programme, MindEye, which can retrieve and reconstruct viewed images from brain activity, combining it with their own AI program to create artwork.The trio already gained attention in 2018 by selling an AI-generated artwork for more than 400,000 euros. / Photo: AFP
It is the product of the brainwaves of one member of the French art collective Obvious, collected in an MRI machine at the Brain Institute of the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.He admits the resulting work was not exactly what he had in mind,"but it has kept the basic elements: a flaming mountain with flowing lava and a landscape on a light backgro und".
For the latest project,"Mind to Image", they used an open-source programme, MindEye, which is able to retrieve and reconstruct viewed images from brain activity, combining it with their own AI program to create artwork. "Two years ago, I would never have believed that this could exist," said Charles Mellerio, a neuro-radiologist who assisted the project.