Portrait Of The Artist As An Algorithm

In today’s episode I welcome you to the Museum of Non-Human Art, a brand new gallery full of art made entirely by machines, computers, algorithms, robots and other non-human entities. I hope your enjoy your visit!To see pictures of any of the artworks we talked about on this show head to the website! Guests:Elizabeth Stephens, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of QueenslandMichael Noll, computer artist, professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern CaliforniaAhmed Elgammel, director of the The Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers UniversityOrit Gat, art critic & writerXiaoyu Weng, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Further Reading:Do Androids Dream of Electric Bananas?Machines in the GardenAutomata by Jacquet-DrozThe Story of Jacquet-DrozWhen the Machine Made Art "Incredible Machine" (1968) — main-title animation sequence for award-winning movie by Owen Murphy Productions for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company."Patterns by 7090," by Michael Noll"Computer Generated Ballet" by Michael NollHuman or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition with Lines’ and a Computer–Generated PictureCAN: Creative Adversarial Networks Generating “Art” by Learning About Styles andDeviating from Style NormsQuantifying Creativity in Art NetworksLarge-Scale Classification of Fine-Art Paintings: Learning the Right Metric on the Right FeatureA Computer Vision System for Artistic Influence MiningTales of Our Time Exhibit at the GuggenheimSun Yuan & Peng Yu: Tales of Our TimeFlash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.Want to send a note or idea? Spotted a reference? Email me at [email protected]. Want to donate? Head this way. Can't give money? Leave a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell a friend about the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices