Beyond the Boundaries

Using AI to experience Art and Reality in new ways.

Merzmensch
The Narrative
Published in
4 min readJan 26, 2020

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A new vision of the temple Kiyo-Mizudera

Have you ever imagined the place behind reality? What would it look like? A dark void? A sea of light? Is it possible at all? Since everything is reality, even the Big Beyond?

Artificial Intelligence lets us enhance our perception — or at least it shows the world from new points of view.

My journey began with a historical black&white photo, being colorized by #DeOldify, a Deep Learning model by Jason Antic:

I used 3D Ken Burns effect (also AI-driven) to make a photo to a camera flight:

The rest of the thrilling discoveries and experiments on these footages, made by AI community, you can find in my article “Re-Animated History”. But…

Beyond the limits

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Merzmensch
The Narrative

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.