Category: spongy moth

  • Datasets = Artistic Material In early 2020, before the widespread adoption of large language models like ChatGPT and text-to-image generators like Midjourney, I founded the UVM Art and AI Research Group, and I became one of the only faculty from the arts and humanities working in AI at my university. Initially, I was interested in…

  • New Architectures of Climate Change

    New Architectures of Climate Change

    Damaged Leaf Dataset Update September 7, 2022 A drought in VT prompted a Spongy Moth caterpillar outbreak. On our property in Colchester, VT, Oaks that lost their first set of leaves to hungry caterpillars generated a second set of leaves. Now the second generation of leaves is starting to fall, making evident the difference in…

  • The Damaged Leaf Dataset: Views From The Lightroom

    The Damaged Leaf Dataset: Views From The Lightroom

    Working with our first 1000 photographs of the Damaged Leaf Dataset.