21. This is an Artwork
• Marina Abramovic
“Imponderabilia”
(1977)
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This is an Artwork
• Tracey Emin
“Everyone I Have Ever Slept With”
(1995): A tent internally pasted with
the names of all the sexual partners
of the artist.
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• Andrew Zisserman (2014): visualizing what a
neural network is learning while it is being
trained
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• Andrea Vedaldi (2015): visualizing what a
neural network is learning while it is being
trained
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Is this an Artwork?
• Alexander Mordvintsev’s "Inceptionism“
(2015)
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Is this an Artwork?
• Alexander Mordvintsev’s "Inceptionism“
(2015)
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Is this an Artwork?
• Leon Gatys and Alexander Ecker’s "A
Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style“ (2015)
Leonid Afremov Neural Network
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Is this an Artwork?
• Joris Dik : a new 3D-printed “Rembrandt”
portrait (2016)
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Is this an Artwork?
• Donya Quick (2015): automated music
composition
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Is this an Artwork?
• USC’s A.I. (2016)
“And from the other side of my apartment/
An empty room behind the inner wall/
A thousand pictures on the kitchen floor/
Talked about a hundred years or more”
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Is This an Artwork?
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas, principal scientist at
Google (2016):
"We're on the edge of a new
frontier in art and creativity —
and it's not human”
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Who is the Creator?
• And why should you get credit for your
artwork?
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What is really different?
• What did the art collectors buy at the
DeepDreams auction? The output of a
neural network is a digital file, which can be
copied in a split second. The only way to
guarantee that no other copies will be made
is to physically destroy the neural network.
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What is really different?
• The art was sold for a few thousand dollars,
which is a tiny fraction of the cost of the
GPUs used to run the neural network.
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What is really different?
• Who appreciates human art? Humans.
• Who appreciates machine art?
David Hickey Lucy LippardRosalind Krauss Frank PopperBrian Sewell Arthur Danto Philippe Daverio
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What is Art?
• The way that a neural network can be “hijacked”
to do art may help understand the brain of the
artist.