Why?

I’m fascinated by how ugly and scary computer’s dreams are and how we are slowly morphing into computers ourselves so I decided to go back to a time where paintings where pure classic beauty and I’m trying to see them from the eyes of our times.

Alright, but how?

I’m running paintings trough a bunch of different algorithms until they start to look interesting. After I’m layering them in Photoshop and and with a brush I’m painting “masking” different part of the layers until it’s sublime.

Can we still call it AI?

I guess you could say it’s a collaborative work between the AI and me. It’s AI generated art with a human touch.

Sounds good, exactly what tools are considered real AI?

I think machine learning, generative adversarial network and all the processor / breeder are creating interesting AI art because of the randomization effect created by the AI instead of the human. I love this type of art because for me it’s a little like at the beginning of the Dadaism movement when Arp created abstract compositions from cutout paper shapes, which he dropped randomly onto a background and glued down where they fell. He argued for this kind of chance abstraction as a way to rid art of any subjectivity.

Here’s an extensive list of tools to create AI generated art including some of the tools I use on a daily basis. It’s a lot of fun, join the madness:

https://aiartists.org/ai-generated-art-to