RESEARCH
Numero Cromatico produces artworks, installations, and projects with a structured scientific approach. Most of the collective's projects involve the realisation of scientific experiments on the perception and pleasantness of the artwork, in which the public is an active part of the experimentation.
Numero Cromatico’s projects are therefore always the result of an in-depth interdisciplinary study of human cognitive mechanisms and arise from the confrontation and encounter with groups of researchers and academics.
To date, the group's main lines of research are two: one investigates how top-down cognitive processes influence aesthetic fruition; the other investigates the influence of bottom-up processes in the perception of artworks.
Experiments
Art as Supernormal Stimulus: the artwork as a superstimulus in the age of the digitisation of intersubjective experiences
2022
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo
With the scientific collaboration of BrainSigns
Do we prefer a painting made by a human being
or one made by artificial intelligence?
2019
ArtVerona - Verona (IT)
With the scientific collaboration of BrainSigns
How the exhibition context changes our perception of AI
Neuroaesthetic experiment at Crypta Balbi | Museo Nazionale Romano during the exhibition
“Eternal struggle of my desire”
2022/2023
With the scientific collaboration of BrainSigns
Publications
Chiarella, S. G., Torromino, G., Gagliardi, D. M., Rossi, D., Babiloni, F., Cartocci, G. (2022). Investigating the negative bias towards artificial intelligence: Effects of prior assignment of AI-authorship on the aesthetic appreciation of abstract paintings, Computers in Human Behaviour, Volume 137, December, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107406
Gagliardi, D. M., Torromino, G., Focareta, M., Cuono, S. (2021). Il ruolo dell’autorialità nell’esperienza estetica, Rivista di Psicologia dell'Arte, Jartrakor Roma, anno XLII, n. 32.
Chiarella, S. G., Gagliardi, D. M., Torromino, G., Rossi, D., Babiloni, F., & Cartocci, G. (2021, September). Aesthetic appreciation in art context. Human versus Artificial Intelligence authorship, Cognitive Processing, Vol. 22, No. SUPPL 1, pp. 61-61, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17,
D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01058-x
Chiarella, S.G., Gagliardi, D.M., Torromino, G., Rossi, D., Babiloni, F., Cartocci, G. (2021). The role of authorship in aesthetic appreciation: A comparison between human-made and AI-made artworks. Poster presentation. IAEA 2021 - XXVI Conference of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. City University of London – Goldsmith University
of London. 1st - 3rd September
Chiarella, S. G., Gagliardi, D. M., Torromino, G., Rossi, D., Babiloni, F., & Cartocci, G. (2020). Come l’autorialità influenza l’apprezzamento estetico. Uno studio sul confronto tra umano e intelligenza artificial, Nodes 15-16, Anno IX, Roma.