Surprise Machines is a visual investigation that will take the form of a digital installation, part of the exhibition Curatorial A(I)gents that took place at the Harvard Art Museums in Spring 2022. The project sets out to visualize and curate the entire universe of museums’ collections, intending to open up unexpected insights into the more than 200,000 objects that make them up. To accomplish these surprise encounters, “black box” algorithms are curatorially employed to shape the data ...
