Sofia Crespo’s “Artificial Natural History” and “Neural Zoo” projects portray “an imagined nature that has been rearranged.” They pose questions not only about the natural world but also about the role machine learning and computer vision could play in art.

As Crespo explains on her website, “our visual cortex recognizes the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to.”

Endless natural diversity through an AI lens

At first glance, the work of Sofia Crespo’s neural network resembles illustrations of the likes of German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, one of several observers at the time who had to draw the natural world around him in a pre-camera age.

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