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From icons to images
Computing is not just about science but can be about art and the image too…from designing icons to creating creative systems that can do art there is lots of exciting research on the boundaries of art and computer science.
Ant Art
There are many ways Artificial Intelligences might create art. Breeding a colony of virtual ants is one of the most creative. … (read on)
Hiroshi Kawano and his AI abstract artist
Piet Mondrian is famous for his pioneering pure abstract paintings that consist of blocks of colour with thick black borders. This series of works is iconic now. You can buy designs based on them on socks, cards, bags, T-shorts, vases, and more, He also inspired one of the first creative art programs. Written by Hiroshi Kawano it created new abstract art after Mondrian. … (read on)
Tanaka Atsuko: an electric dress
Wearable computing is now increasingly common whether wearing smart watches or clothes that light up. The pioneer of the latter was Japanese artist, Tanaka Atsuko, with her 1950s art work, Electric Dress. It was anything but light though, weighing 50-60kg, clothing her head to foot in a mixture of fluorescent and normal light bulbs. … (read on)
Aaron and the art of art
Aaron is a successful American painter. Aaron’s delicate and colourful compositions on canvas sell well, and have been exhibited worldwide, in London’s Tate Modern gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for example. Oh and by the way, Aaron is a robot!… (read on)
Susan Kare: Icon Draw
GUIs changed the way we use computers. A key idea was to click on icons not type commands creating the design principle of “recognition rather than recall”. That needs instantly recognised icons to work…Susan Kare was responsible for creating them… (read on)
The Hive at Kew
Combine an understanding of science, with electronics skills and the creativity of an artist and you can get inspiring, memorable and fascinating experiences. That is what the Hive, an art instillation at Kew Gardens in London, does. It is a massive sculpture linked to a subtle sound and light experience, surrounded by a wildflower meadow, but based on the work of scientists studying bees.… (read on)
Piet Mondrian and Image Representation
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter, famous for his minimalist abstract art. His series of grid-based paintings consisted of rectangles, some of solid primary colour, others white, separated by thick black lines. Experiment with Mondrian-inspired art, while exploring different representations of images (as well as playing with maths). Mondrian‘s art is also a way to to learn to program in the image representation language SVG…. (read on)
More to come of course …
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