You cannot see the photograph you are about to take with this Nadia concept camera, simply because it has no display. Rather than allow you to play Ansel Adams, the Nadia passes the judgment of aesthetic quality over to ACQUINE — the first publicly available aesthetics inference engine. What that means is that ACQUINE runs a series of algorithms and judges the image’s aesthetic value as a rating, which in turn tells you when and what to photograph. Kind of takes the fun out of photography, no? The Nadia’s designer, Andrew Kupresanin, posits: “Within pop culture and society artificial intelligence has been a topic that is approached with hope, fear, cynicism, curiousity and caution. However many intelligent devices have already been effortlessly absorbed into our culture and everyday lives. Currently under development, we will soon see devices and systems that have the ability to think creatively and infer beauty. As this novel technology improves and works its way into consumer devices, what effect will it have on individual preference and our creative process?” That may be an incisive question, worthy of pondering. I personally, however, don’t look forward to the day that a CPU will determine what qualifies as good art…but when that day comes I will be your loyal minion, Giant Robot Overlords…

One more image of the rear view in action after the Jump, or watch the video below…

Nadia from Andrew Kupresanin on Vimeo.

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