Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 Submission
Today I submitted these two pieces to the RA summer show. All the work is done by Arnheim 1.0, in the sense that it is Arnheim 1.0 that...
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What makes a good composition and why?
What is a good composition? There are many theories, to take one, consider Arnheim's book "The Power of the Center" which proposes that...
Arnheim 1.0 overpainting on photographs
Using Arnheim 1.0 [see prev. blog post and paper here] I've been doing some experiments today with overpainting on photographs. Can A1.0...
Neural Visual Grammars + Dual Encoder Evaluation = Jungle in the Tiger
The image below was produced by a neural L-system evolved to produce images that satisfy the text description "Jungle in the Tiger"...
Life After Death, GPT-3, the Narrative of Self, and Schizophrenia
At first it seemed I was a paranoid doctor who was being treated for a heart condition, a serious one. But then I think I was his son. My...
The Doodle: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Drawing
The doodle is a fascinating thing. It is produced unconsciously. Maybe it is the visual equivalent of stream of consciousness thinking,...
AARON by Harold Cohen: The Doodle and Human-Like Abstract Drawing
This post continues to think about generative procedures G which the artificial artist could use to produce marks. All the images I'd...
Minimal Generative Algorithms for Drawing Lines
What generative rules (G) can the artificial artist use to produce images? During my recovery from coronavirus in April 2020 confined to...
Ambiguity in Art and the work of Aaron Hertzman
It was a pleasure to find the work of Aaron Hertzman via the Neurips 2020 workshop on creativity. His talk addresses some issues...
Evolving Supra-Normal Art using Pre-trained Neural Networks as Aesthetic Selectors
Let us generalize the work of Tom White and others who have used stochastic search to produce art works (images) that optimize the class...
Trevor Paglen (Bloom)
Trevor Paglen (Bloom) PACE Gallery, October 2020 The most interesting and mysterious component of the exhibition consists of large dye...
Review of "How Art Works: A Psychological Explanation" by Ellen Winner
The main findings in this book are as follows. People enjoy experiencing negative emotions when looking at art because they know they are...
Language Games and Drawing Games
How is language different from visual art? I wrote a paper recently about this topic which explores the conflict between Goodman's...
Rudolf Arnheim and Bayesian Aesthetic Meta-Uncertainty
In his book "Art and Visual Perception" Arnheim considers one of the most minimal artworks, a circle on a piece of paper (although a dot...
Introduction to Creative Machines
Why is it safe to assume that the last bastion of human creativity will be the artist, after the driver, doctor, and scientist have been...