What is the Computer Vision Art Gallery?

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The Computer Vision Art Gallery at computervisionart.com is an online gallery of artworks made with computer vision and AI techniques, presented in connection with the CVPR conference. Its 2021 edition was held virtually because of COVID-19. The site's main page organizes the exhibited works into three groups — Winner, Shortlist, and All Accepted Works — and lists each piece by artist name and title, with a year. If you want to see what computer-vision-based art looks like as a curated selection rather than a random feed, this is the page to start from.

What the gallery shows

The gallery is a curated exhibition rather than a portfolio site for a single artist. The homepage presents the selection in tiers:

  • Winner — a single awarded work.
  • Shortlist — a smaller set of notable entries.
  • All Accepted Works — the full list of accepted pieces.

Each entry follows the same format: artist name, artwork title, and a year. That makes the page usable as a quick index — you can scan titles and years, then look up individual artists elsewhere if a piece interests you.

The 2021 edition and the CVPR connection

The page identifies the edition as CVPR 2021, and notes it was virtual due to COVID-19. CVPR (the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) is the context the gallery is tied to, which explains why the works cluster around machine perception, generative models, and surveillance or recognition themes rather than traditional media.

The page also links to Past Galleries, so the exhibition is not limited to a single year.

The awarded and shortlisted works

The Winner and Shortlist sections name specific pieces:

Tier Artist Work Year
Winner Nouf Aljowaysir Salaf 2020
Shortlist Yuguang Zhang (Non-)Human 2020
Shortlist Emidio Battipaglia All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace V1.1b 2020
Shortlist Vadim Epstein Aphantasia 2021
Shortlist Sofia Crespo x Entangled Others Beneath the Neural Waves 2021
Shortlist David Rokeby Dundas Square Surveillance Etude 2021
Shortlist Alexander Mordvintsev Hexells 2020
Shortlist yuma kishi Mary 2020
Shortlist VICC Mila Omniart 2020
Shortlist Meltem Şahin sketches with+for+from ai 2020
Shortlist Mal Som Strange Fruit 2020
Shortlist Jake Elwes The Zizi Show 2020

The titles alone signal the range: surveillance studies, questions of humanness, neural-wave imagery, and AI-assisted sketching all appear side by side.

What the full accepted list covers

The All Accepted Works section is much longer and spans multiple years, roughly 2018 through 2021. A few examples show the spread of themes and approaches:

  • Kirell Benzi, A Distant Past (2021)
  • Jia-Rey Chang, AI_Jam (2020)
  • Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Cave Paintings (2021)
  • Alexia Achilleos, Cyprus as AI Saw it in 1879: Perpetuating Colonialism (2020)
  • Helena Nikonole & Nikita Prudnikov, Faces2voices (2020)
  • Rod Dickinson, Fear Filter (2018)
  • Hiroki Kamba, Flocking Camouflage (2021)
  • Ben Bogart, Imagined Field from the Decomposition of an Apparatus (2019)
  • Daniel Ambrosi, Infinite Dreams (2020)
  • Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Infodemic (2020)
  • Joanna Zylinska, Neuromatic (2020)
  • Shinji Toya, Paint Your Face Away (2020)

Several works are collaborative, listing multiple artists — for instance Emotions Constructed Through AI Art by Mohamed Elhoseiny, Divyansh Jha, and Hanna H Chang, and identity disperser -afforestation- by Seiya Aoki, Asuka Ishii, Santa Naruse, Takayuki Yamaguchi, and Nao Tokui. The list also includes group credits such as VICC Mila and the collective Entangled Others.

How to use the site

If you are researching computer-vision art, the page works as a starting index:

  1. Open computervisionart.com and read the Winner and Shortlist sections first — they are the smallest, most curated set.
  2. Use the artist and title pairs to search for the actual works, since the page itself is a listing rather than a display of images or documentation.
  3. Check Past Galleries if you want editions beyond 2021.
  4. Note the year next to each title to place a work in time; the accepted list mixes 2018–2021 entries.

One practical caveat: the homepage gives names, titles, and years, but not descriptions, media, or links per work. Expect to do a second search for any piece you want to actually see.