Seeing how AI programmes use algorithms to interpret images, and replicate our human connection in the modern world: that's the premise of Tate Britain's new exhibition, Recognition. The exhibition uses artificial intelligence technologies (such as object and facial recognition) to pair photos from news agency Reuters with paintings from the Tate collection. Visitors are able to view the virtual gallery created by the programme, and learn about why it chose each specific art/photo match, as well as share their favourite choices made by the machine. They can also help out the AI by making their own comparisons between Reuters' real-time news images and the museum's archives. The aim of the project is to find out whether, over the course of three months, the AI programme can learn and improve on its pairings, using its own observations as well as the input of Tate visitors.

We're delighted to announce the winner of IK Prize 2016, an annual award that celebrates digital creativity in all its forms. This year we challenged digital creatives to use a form of artificial intelligence to explore, investigate or'understand' British art in the Tate collection. Fabrica's winning idea, RECOGNITION, is an A.I. project that will uncover the hidden links between current events and art from the Tate collection. Imagine an intelligent machine searching the never-ending stream of news images on the internet, learning to analyse thousands of photographs in terms of composition, style and content. What if this image-hungry'brain' could learn to understand great artworks too?