"Art (drawing) doesn't just render the visible, but makes visible."
On 4/6/10 9:43 AM, "Don Norman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The problem as i see it is that this particular drawing program doesn't
> demonstrate depth and insight. So, sure, it sketches, but art is not about
> capturing images: it is about providing insight, new interpretations, and
> depth. Thus, a good photograph can be art, not because it captures the
> image, but because the photographer a artist has exercised great care in the
> selection, composition, and lighting of the subject matter, often revealing
> something very different than would be experienced by a viewer of the
> original scene.
>
> Painting. My favorite artificial painting is by my friend harold Cohen.
> Harold is a world-class painter (paintings in the Tate, for example), who
> developed a computer program to paint. harold spent decades perfecting the
> program, teaching it all he knew about art, developing complex rules and
> interpretations.
>
> Then he let it lose upon the canvass, and the results often surprised him.
>
> The results were considered god enough to have allowed him to do exhibitions
> (sometimes including real-time painting by the computer) in major art
> galleries across the world as well as to get detailed art criticism in the
> major art journals.
>
> The new crowd of AI researchers seem to have forgotten him, perhaps because
> he was not a computer scientist or AI researcher: he was, primarily an
> artist. (Although he gave lots of talks at AI conferences).
>
> The name of the program is Aaron. Harold says they are Aaron's paintings.
> harold wrote the program, but he insists that the results are due to the
> program, not to him.
> see
>
> bio:
> http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/aaron/hi_cohenbio.html
>
> Aaron's latest paintings:
> http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=566&which=&aid=60581
> 0&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com
>
> some earlier paintings
> http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w05/coh
> en_h.htm
>
> Nick Lambert's critical evaluation of Aaron as part of his PhD thesis at
> oxford.
> http://thesis.lambertsblog.co.uk/?page_id=237
>
> Don
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