Art and software deceive in the same way.
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
Death is inevitable. Hans Holbein’s The Dance of Death can help us face that reality. Accepting death we can learn how to live. Continue ReadingHans Holbein and the Coronavirus
Examining Velázquez’s Las Meninas
we see what it would take for a machine to approach human intelligence. Continue ReadingMachine Intelligence and Art
A large rubber ball bounces into the street, the driver sees the ball, intuits that a child might follow, and stops the car. Automated vehicles are incapable of accomplishing the Continue ReadingVermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama
Art balances artistic technique with emotional expressiveness. The more difficult the act of balancing, the greater the art. If artistic technique dominates, we get craft. If emotional experience dominates, we Continue ReadingIs Great Art Still Possible?
What is a modern museum? Conceived as a place for people to learn about and experience art, they were often built as secular temples to sacred objects. Today, people do Continue ReadingThe Temple of Responsive Objects
Where do we find spirituality in a world without absolutes? Charles Baudelaire and Emily Dickinson offer two alternative paths. Let us compare two poems written about the same subject – Continue ReadingBaudelaire and Dickinson: Religion for Moderns
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
I was absolutely stunned when, in my late teens, I encountered the last movement of Bach’s Partita #2 for Violin, the “Great Chaconne”. I never cared why it was called Continue Reading“Heart and Soul” is a Chaconne – So What?
What is art? Academicians and critics love definitions, but we do not live our lives through the dictionary or abstract thought. Most important ideas have no clear definition: truth, justice, Continue ReadingArt is What Artists Do