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everyone loves Asian art but will never give credit to it
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every season a new culture is ripped off like clockwork
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and sparked online conversations
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about how Asian aesthetics get adopted by western consumers with zero acknowledgement
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In partnership with Claude
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so when Anthropic invited me to my first ever hackathon
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at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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covering the Asian art department
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naturally my brain went back to this point
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and how we can use technology to protect cultural origins
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before we started hacking
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I got a tour of the Asian art department
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and I kept spotting Buddhist sculptures
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and religious garments that are referenced in current runway collections
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I immediately knew this would be my inspiration
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my idea was to build a tool that helps you understand the historical context of a garment
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see how that context is being erased today
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and find out who is actually giving credit
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I asked Claude to help me plan and execute it
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and we landed on an interactive tool using image recognition and the Met's API as well as live web search
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four hours of iterating later
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Claude and I had built Project Provenance
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a tool that maps a garment from ancient sculpture to modern runway
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and enables museum goers to shop from independent brands that care about the culture and history behind what they're wearing
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there were so many cool projects in the room
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and it shows how technology can become an interpretation layer for art
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So thank you Anthropic for the craziest side quest ever