RESEARCH

Numero Cromatico designs artworks, installations and projects with a structured scientific approach.

In fact, most of the collective's projects include scientific experiments on how the artwork is perceived, 

in which the public is an active part of the experimentation. 

The artworks are therefore always the result of an in-depth interdisciplinary study of human cognitive mechanisms

and collaborations with research groups at universities and academies.

To date, the collective’s main lines of research are two:

one investigates how top-down cognitive processes influence aesthetic enjoyment; the other investigates the influence

of bottom-up processes in the perception of the artwork. 

ART AS SUPERNORMAL STIMULUS

L’opera d’arte come superstimolo nell’era della digitalizzazione delle esperienze intersoggettive
2022 - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo - MAXXI
in collaboration with Brain Signs

Do we prefer a painting made by a human being
or one made by artificial intelligence?
ArtVerona 2019 - Verona (IT)
in collaboration with Brain Signs
 

> The project

> The project 

Papers​

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. In 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

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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

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​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 artificiale. In Nodes 15-16, Anno IX, Roma.