[extropy-chat] Fwd: Artificial Art enters Natural History Museum

[Natasha Vita-More]

Artificial Art enters Natural History

RAP (Robotic Action Painter), a painting robot created by artist Leonel Moura,
is now part of the permanent Hall of Human Origins at the Museum of Natural 
History in New York

<http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/human/art2.php>http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/human/art2.php 


In a recent interview Leonel Moura said that "most people understand now 
what Artificial Intelligence is. They accept the fact that it is today 
possible to simulate intelligence in machines and robots. A kind of 
intelligence that for being artificial it does not mean to be less 
intelligent. Hence I propose a similar concept for art. We can now build 
machines and robots able to create their own art. An artificial art of 
course but for being artificial it does not mean to be less artistic."

<http://www.leonelmoura.com/rap.html>http://www.leonelmoura.com/rap.html

<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
PhD Candidate, <http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/>Planetary Collegium
Proactionary Principle Core Group, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy 
<http://www.extropy.org/>Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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