In Science or Art, Curiosity is the Driver

Culture University - In his first phase of research, Kaspar Ravel, artist in residence at Sorbonne University, met passionate researchers who are a real source of inspiration. He tells us about these encounters, the different aspects of his artistic project and the next steps of his residency. With which researchers did you first have the opportunity to discuss your artistic research project?   - Kaspar Ravel: One of the first people I had the opportunity to discuss my research topic with was Simone Azeglio, a researcher in computational neuroscience at the Institut de la Vision (Sorbonne University/CNRS/Inserm). We both share a passion for images and how they take shape through the work of the retina and the brain. Last month he showed me a newspaper article about dissecting an artificial intelligence, taking a neural network and looking at what's going on inside. I didn't even know that was possible! That was the trigger and I told him I wanted to work together on the dissection of AI. I wanted to demystify these technologies by literally dismantling them to understand their inner workings and discover how they "perceive" images.