AI art : machine visions and warped dreams
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978-1-78542-085-6
Autor
Zylinska, Joanna
Institución
Resumen
The annual Robot Art competition launched by
Internet entrepreneur and dating-websites
founder Andrew Conru invites ‘visually beautiful’ paintings made by robots. The winners so far
include a dot-painted portrait of Albert Einstein, a
copy of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh that took
a robot four hours and fifty minutes to produce (fig.
1) and a series of pictures executed by a programme
called CloudPainter. Written by Pindar Van Arman,
CloudPainter enables a ‘style transfer’ from the work
of an established artist, as a result of which we get pictures which look like they could have been painted by
Cézanne or Francis Bacon, but it can also make its own
stylistic interventions. In August 2017 Taryn Southern, a
self-defined ‘artist/futurist with more than 700 million
online views’, launched a song from what she claimed
would be the world’s first AI-composed music album.1
Having fed parameters such as mood, tempo and genre
into the open source software called Amper, Southern
then overlaid the AI-created instrumentation and chord
structure with the lyrics and vocal melodies of her own.