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Mauro Martino is an Italian artist, designer and researcher.[1] He is the founder and director of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBM Research, and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University.[2] He graduated from Polytechnic University of Milan, and was a research affiliate with the Senseable City Lab at MIT.

His works have been published in "The Best American Infographics" in 2015[3] and 2016 editions[4] and have been shown at international festivals and exhibitions including Ars Electronica,[5] RIXC Art Science Festival,[6] Global Exchange at Lincoln Center,[7] TEDx Cambridge THRIVE and TEDx Riga[8] as well as the Serpentine Gallery.[9] His work is in the permanent collection at Ars Electronica Center.[10] In 2017, the project Network Earth received the National Science Foundation's award as Best Scientific Video.[11] The project AI Portraits won the 2019 Webby People's Voice Award in the category NetArt.[12]

Mauro Martino is a pioneer in the use of the artificial neural network in sculpture.[13][14]

Notable works

  • AI Portraits [15] is a research project that uses artificial neural network to reconstruct a portrait of a person. The AI system was trained on a dataset that included millions of photos of actors and actresses.[16]
  • WonderNet [17] was developed in collaboration with Albert-László Barabási at the Center for Complex Network Research[18] at Northeastern University. WonderNet includes 8 data sculptures which represent 8 different "data-stories" (e.g., art network, flavor network, fake news network, etc.). It was presented at the IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program in Berlin.[19]
  • Forma Fluens [20] uses the world’s largest doodle data set by Google Quick Draw.[21] This project was presented at 123 DATA design exhibition in Paris.[22]
  • Charting Culture maps cultural mobility, tracking the births and deaths of notable individuals, from 600 BC to the present day.[23][24] Charting Culture is one of the most viewed videos of the Nature Video channel on YouTube with over 1.3 million views. This project is part of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit.[25] It was also featured in "The Best American Infographics 2015".[3]
  • News Explorer is a web application providing new interface for news analysis and discovery.[26]
  • Network Earth[27] won the 2017 Best Scientific Video award of the National Science Foundation. Network Earth explores nature's resilience and interconnections between all life on Earth. It accompanied a research paper published in Nature.[28]
  • Rise of Partisanship shows the party polarization of the House of Representatives through time.[29][30] This project was included in "The Best American Infographics 2016".[4]
  • Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions explored a new approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions.[31]

Awards

  • 2019: Webby People's Voice Award – Winner, NetArt, AI Portraits [12]
  • 2017: Vizzies Visualization Challenge by National Science Foundation and Popular Science -- Winner, Best Scientific Video, Network Earth[11]
  • 2017: Kantar Information is Beautiful Award – Honorable Mention, Unusual, Forma Fluens [32]
  • 2016: Innovation by Design Award by Fast Company, Finalist for Websites & Platforms, Watson News Explorer [33]
  • 2016: Kantar Information is Beautiful Award – Silver Medal, Commercial Project, IBM Watson News Explorer [34]
  • 2015: Kantar Information is Beautiful Award – Gold Medal in Data visualization, Rise of Partisanship [35]
  • 2015: Kantar Information is Beautiful Award – Honorable mention - Motion Infographic, Charting Culture[36]

References

  1. ^ "Mauro Martino. About". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Northeastern University, CAMD Art&Design". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Gareth (2015). The Best American Infographics 2015. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 150–151. ISBN 978-0544542709.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Gareth (2016). The Best American Infographics 2016. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-0544556386.
  5. ^ "Ars Electronica 2011. Sensing Place / Placing Sense – Symposium". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  6. ^ "OPEN FIELDS. RIXC Art Science Festival 2016 Exhibition". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Lincoln Center Global Exchange 2015". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  8. ^ "TEDxRiga. Mauro Martino". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Edge-Serpentine Gallery-MAPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Ars Electronica. Understanding AI". Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Vizzies Visualization Challenge". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Webby People's Voice Award 2019 - NetArt". Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  13. ^ "NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Fuorisalone.it Magazine. People". Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  15. ^ "AI Portraits". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Mashable.com. AI Portraits uses code to turn you into a celebrity". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  17. ^ "WonderNet". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  18. ^ "Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR)". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  19. ^ "IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  20. ^ "Forma Fluens". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Flowing Data. Looking for cultural expression in 50 million doodles". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  22. ^ "123 DATA". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Flowing Data. Cultural history via where notable people died". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Nature.com. Humanity's cultural history captured in 5-minute film". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  25. ^ "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  26. ^ "Visual Complexity. Watson News Explorer". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  27. ^ "Fast Company. We're Pushing Nature's Network Architecture To A Catastrophic Crash". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  28. ^ "Nature. Universal resilience patterns in complex networks". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  29. ^ "The Washington Post. A stunning visualization of our divided Congress". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  30. ^ "Business Insider. This 60-second animation shows how divided Congress has become over the last 60 years". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  31. ^ "Senseable City Lab MIT". Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  32. ^ "Kantar Information is Beautiful awards 2017". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  33. ^ "Fast Company. Watson News Explorer". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  34. ^ "Kantar Information is Beautiful awards 2016". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  35. ^ "Information is Beautiful awards 2015". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  36. ^ "Information is Beautiful award 2015". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
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