Art in the Age of Machine Learning

Art in the Age of Machine Learning

Sofian Audry

Language: English

Publisher: MIT Press

Description:

An examination of the use of machine learning in new media art that offers conceptual and practical tools for new media artists and theorists.
Over the past decade, an artistic movement has emerged that draws on machine learning as both inspiration and medium. In this book, transdisciplinary artist-researcher Sofian Audry examines artistic practices at the intersection of machine learning and new media art, providing conceptual and practical tools for new media artists and theorists. Audry looks at works from a broad range of practices, including new media installation, robotic art, visual art, electronic music and sound, and electronic literature, connecting machine learning art to such earlier artistic practices as cybernetics art, artificial life art, and evolutionary art. 
            Machine learning underlies computational systems that are biologically inspired, statistically driven, agent-based...