introducing
teaching a robot the subtleties of fine art
artonomous is an artificially intelligent machine that paints with a brush on canvas. While it can already paint portraits at human parity, photographer Kitty Simpson and A.I. Artist Pindar Van Arman have teamed up to teach it the subtleties of fine art. Kitty will be sharing her evocative photography with the robot and Pindar will be reprogramming its A.I. to learn as much as possible from her. The three will be collaborating on a limited series of paintings as they hone the robot’s portraiture into fine art.
Learn more about the project at https://artonomo.us
Have always wondered where exactly creativity came from. Dissecting my own artistic process and teaching it to robots is my attempt at a better understanding. When I began they were only capable of the simplest tasks, like connecting dots and painting by numbers. My most recent robots, however, use deep learning, artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, and computational creativity to make a surprising amount of independent aesthetic decisions.
They are beyond being simple assistants. My robots are now effectively augmenting my own creativity.
