Intelligence
begins with
seeing.
A research institute investigating visual intelligence beyond the limits of language.
INsVI brings fine arts, machine perception, spatial reasoning, and data science into one field of inquiry.
What we investigate
Visual
intelligence
How machines form spatial, compositional, and perceptual understanding—not merely captions about images.
Visual data
as culture
How datasets encode artistic practice, cultural judgment, absence, bias, and ways of seeing.
Art after
generative AI
How artists can test, critique, and reshape intelligent systems through visual experimentation.
Images are not
sentences in disguise.
Language models describe the visible world. Visual intelligence must learn its structure, relations, ambiguities, and force.
Beyond the
language model
What forms of intelligence are lost when images are reduced to tokens, labels, and captions? INsVI studies alternatives grounded in visual form, space, time, and embodied perception.
Research areas include world models, non-verbal representation learning, visual composition, fine-art datasets, spatial intelligence, and interdisciplinary AI education.
Institute for Visual Intelligence
Visual intelligence research · New York