Photograph: Tate Launching on Friday, Recognition is the winner of 2016’s IK prize – an annual award, this year supported by Microsoft, for a project that embraces digital technology to explore and showcase Tate’s collection of British art.
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 The team behind the winning project, from the Italy-based communication research centre Fabrica, say their inspiration came from an intriguing conundrum: how can you apply rational thinking to a subject like art?
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 “News always presents itself as this mimetic, glass window on to the world, but of course photojournalism is an art form often; it is a mode of communication – and so is art and painting,” he said.
 With £15,000 in prize money and £90,000 to produce their vision, the four-strong team at Fabrica have spent months developing the project, which harnesses a burgeoning form of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.
 It will be available in full online and there will be a small exhibition at Tate Britain.
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 “It is really an experiment for us.
” The team also hope the project will showcase the positive side of artificial intelligence – a technology that experts including the physicist Stephen Hawking have raised safety concerns about.
 “Technology is an empowering tool,” said Vallentin.