Table of Contents "Algorithmic Art & A.I."       IAAA       



Course "Algorithmic Art & A.I." 


Line Drawing as Process: AARON

Wie kunst beschouwt als een typisch menselijke expressievorm, kan kunstgeneratie slechts automatiseren door de menselijke cognitie (en de menselijke kennis, en het menselijk gevoelsleven) te simuleren. Algoritmische kunst is dan een onderdeel van cognitiewetenschap of kunstmatige intelligentie. Deze opvatting wordt verdedigd door Harold Cohen.

Art is valuable to human beings in virtue of being made by other human beings, and the question of finding more efficient modes (. . .) simply does not arise.

Harold Cohen: "What is an Image?" Proceedings International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, 1979, Vol. 2, p. 1028. (Cf. also: p. 1048.)

Maar: Hij maakt het zich weer makkelijk door het kunst-maken als een zeer ongewone menselijke activiteit te zien, die voltrokken wordt zonder zelf-reflectie:

(. . .) art-making in general lacks clear internal goal-seeking structures.

(. . .) the program has no critical judgment that would enable it to declare that one of its drawings was better than another.

Harold Cohen: "What is an Image?" Proceedings International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, 1979, Vol. 2, p. 1030.

Untitled Drawing, 1979, by Harold Cohen's program Aaron.


Production Rules

[Kunstmatige Intelligentie: Reasoning]

Artificial Art, focussing on Cohen

Cohen’s papers

Interview with Cohen

Download AARON

Harold Cohen: "What is an Image?" Proceedings International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, 1979, Vol. 2, pp. 1028 - 1057. [In Reader 1985]

Harold Cohen, Becky Cohen and Penny Ni: The First Artificial Intelligence Coloring Book. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman, Inc., 1984.

Harold Cohen: "How to Draw Three People in a Botanical Garden." [In Reader 1992]

Harold Cohen: "The Computability of Art." Ms., 1991. [In Reader 1992]

Harold Cohen: "Parallel to Perception -- Some Notes on the Problem of Machine Art." Presented at INTERACT, Edinburgh 1973.

Curtis Roads: "An Interview with Harold Cohen." Computer Music Journal 3, 4 (1979?), pp. 50-57.

Ed Buton's program ROSE works within the AARON paradigm.

Burton, Ed. 1995. Thoughtful drawings: A computational model of the cognitive nature of children's drawing. Eurographics '95. (Download PostScript File.)
Burton, Ed. 1995. Representing Representation: Artificial Intelligence and Drawing. This is a chapter for "Computers & Art" edited by Stuart Mealing to be published January 1996 by Intellect Books.
Burton, Ed. 1996. Artificial Innocence: Interactions between the study of children's drawing and artificial intelligence. Updated version of paper published at Creativity & Cognition '96, Loughborough.