In today’s episode I welcome you to the Museum of Non-Human Art, a brand new gallery full of art made entirely by machines, computers, algorithms, robots and other non-human entities.

I hope your enjoy your visit.

Full transcript available in site.

Guests

• Elizabeth Stephens, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland
• Michael Noll, computer artist, professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California
• Ahmed Elgammel, director of the The Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University
• Orit Gat, art critic & writer
• Xiaoyu Weng, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim

Further Reading

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Bananas?
• Machines in the Garden
• Automata by Jacquet-Droz
• The Story of Jacquet-Droz
• When the Machine Made Art
• “Incredible Machine” (1968) — main-title animation sequence for award-winning movie by Owen Murphy Productions for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.
• “Patterns by 7090,” by Michael Noll
• “Computer Generated Ballet” by Michael Noll
• Human or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition with Lines’ and a Computer–Generated Picture
• CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks Generating “Art” by Learning About Styles and
• Deviating from Style Norms
• Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks
• Large-Scale Classification of Fine-Art Paintings: Learning the Right Metric on the Right Feature
• A Computer Vision System for Artistic Influence Mining
• Tales of Our Time Exhibit at the Guggenheim
• Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: Tales of Our Time