I can understand if this is a UX/UI art experiment. But it’s not. It’s about NASA images that are collected and grouped together using machine learning.
Edit: I’m not against the experiment. I’m against how it’s presented in the browser window.
Have you read the book Hackers & Painters [1]? http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Do any of these other Arts & Culture Experiments speak to you? https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/arts-culture
The crux of my argument isn’t about the experiment itself. It is how Google chooses to present it that gets in the way of contemplating, understanding and enjoying the experiment.
About the books: I shall check them out, appreciate the insight.
https:// ____ARTSEXPERIMENTS____ .withgoogle.com/nasasvisualuniverse
We are here to see the painting. Not the frame design and not the museum. If the frame has a cloudy glass with fancy ways to open it, with flower patterns stained on it, it takes considerable strength to unveil it, and it makes you mad when opening it - it gets in the way of enjoying the painting.
UX/UI presents the content. In this case : Google’s art experiment is about using ML to discover new insights about NASA’s programs. That’s the content part. That’s the painting.