Artificial Intelligence is an emerging medium in the contemporary art world. Only recently has technology improved enough to allow the creation of algorithms capable of preforming complex tasks like generating an original image. AI art is pivotal within the history of contemporary art because it gives artists a new medium by which to create unique works, and a new framework through which they can explore and extrapolate upon on the role of the artist in the creation of a work. The Bauhaus idea of the artist as an engineer is invoked, as to code AI one must be intensely familiar with computer science and coding. It also allows artists to further explore ideas of randomness, iteration, and artistic authorship that the Abstract Expressionists and Surrealists experimented with before them. Continue reading →