This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways

Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways by b1daly on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:34AM (#17808250)

An essential aspect of an artistic work, whether it is structured from words, matter, sound, or behavior is that it has a human author who “intends” it to be art. An important part of this is that it has no other intended purpose. (This is what separates it from design.) So it needs a human author. The AI created images could be turned into art if someone could credibly claim such authorship. In the instance of the images in the post, they are not intended as art, so some kind of metaphysical alchemy would be required to convert them. (A big name modern artist claims them as his own, with permission from the developers, and puts them in a show.)

In addition to the work itself, the framing or presentation is essential to complete the artistic product. Printing the images out on nice material and framing them would help.

John Cage’s 4’33” is (IMO) a brilliant performance piece. It requires the context of a stage, of live musicians to be effective. It doesn’t work so well as a recorded piece!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″

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Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways by nonsince on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:12AM (#17809722)

Any restrictions you put on what is and isn’t art will be contradicted by something, somewhere. A large number of pieces of art exist only to raise the question of what art even is.

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Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways by yason on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:08AM (#17817143)

Then that is already the message—to question what art even is.

Computer generated works don't have that, or any message.

The process of computer-generating a number of pieces itself might be some form of art, but more like in the form of art of programming rather than the art of painting.

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Re:This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways by michrassena on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:07AM (#17810236)

There's plenty of avenues here to make art. Simply curating the images which are generated is enough to call it art. In addition, it has a text interface which is somehow connected to the output. The artist could write a poem and show us the output, but they don't have to show us every image, just the one's that contribute in some fashion to the meaning of their words. It's not that different from using aleatory methods, found art, or collage.

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