The Next Rembrandt Lithophane

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Technology and data are being used to bring back to life one of the greatest painters of all time. The Next Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam: a 3D printed painting made solely from data of Rembrandt's body of work. This brings the Master of Light and Shadow back to life, creating one more painting. But this time, data is the painter, and technology is the brush. At 10.00 CET on 5 April 2016, a portrait of a man in black 17th-century clothing with a white collar and a hat was unveiled in front of a packed auditorium. The painting was created using deep learning algorithms and facial recognition techniques to analyze data from Rembrandt's total body of work. The portrait consists of over 148 million pixels based on 168,263 painting fragments from Rembrandt's oeuvre. The boundaries between art and technology are being blurred by this artwork, which is intended to fuel conversation about the relationship between art and algorithms, data and human design, and technology and emotion. More information about this unique painting can be found at http://www.nextrembrandt.com.