Pindar Van Arman’s artwork is an exploration of the artistic process, and how close artificial intelligence comes to human creativity. Over 15 years, his painting robots evolved from making backgrounds to using AI algorithms. Then he was inspired by Minsky’s The Society of Mind, which theorized that the human mind was a collection of smaller interactive intelligences, each of which surfaced when needed. As his robot’s algorithms started competing for control of the brush, they became creative. While Pindar remained the artist, his robots had become studio assistants capable of creative autonomy, even producing artworks completely on their own.
This is artonomous in collaboration with Kitty Simpson, an internationally published photographer with a passion for close-up, black-and-white portraiture that captures the core of each model by tuning out “the noise” and revealing the beauty.
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