Abstract Art and Artificial Intelligence

First Abstract Work by Wassily Kandinsky

How would an intelligent software agent look at abstract art? Previously, we demonstrated why today’s intelligent agents are unable to comprehend a representational work of art. Could an intelligent agent decode Continue ReadingAbstract Art and Artificial Intelligence

How Artistic Deception Created Modern Art

Calder "Snow Flurry"

Picasso said abstraction starts with an object, and then reality is removed.  Deception is at the heart of art, morphing reality into artistic lies representing the truth. How does an Continue ReadingHow Artistic Deception Created Modern Art

Art and the Future of Pokémon Go

Raphael "The Wedding of the Virgin"

Pokémon Go players have fallen off a cliff, crashed their cars, and jumped into traffic. They have been robbed. Someone saw his house invaded by players who were told it Continue ReadingArt and the Future of Pokémon Go

My Memory of a Time and Place Where I Never Was

"L’intérieur de chez Bruant: Le Mirliton" by Louis Anquetin

La Goule simultaneously fascinated and excited the patrons in Aristide Bruant‘s decadent, famous Paris cabaret, Le Mirliton, as portrayed in the newly rediscovered L’intérieur de chez Bruant: Le Mirliton I Continue ReadingMy Memory of a Time and Place Where I Never Was

Understanding Art is Difficult: A Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words

Seeing this in a museum what would you think it was?  Seeing it while driving, you would immediately watch for an intersection ahead. If you never saw a car in Continue ReadingUnderstanding Art is Difficult: A Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words

Why I Hate Most Art Criticism: Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament and Music

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions…” David Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature Emotions first, cognition second is the best way to perceive art, Continue ReadingWhy I Hate Most Art Criticism: Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament and Music