Art meets AI: computer-generated works set for New York sale

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Would you pay for an artwork painted by an AI?

1 / 2Two paintings made using artificial intelligence will be auctioned on November 15, 2019 at Sotheby's in New YorkTwo paintings up for auction in New York highlight a growing interest in artificial intelligence-created works -- a technique that could transform how art is made and viewed but is also stirring up passionate debate.

The European classic style portrait is part of the same series as"Portrait of Edmond Belamy", which sold for more than 60 times the lowest estimate at Christie's during the 2018 fall auctions.GAN involves feeding thousands of images of the same style into a computer until the machine concludes that it has created a new portrait that it thinks accurately reflects that style.Auctioneers have put modest prices on the two paintings.

Moore said the sale of"Portrait of Edmond Belamy" showed that there is"a marketplace for this new body of work" but that it's still"in the very early stages."In the fledgling artificial intelligence market, Obvious is not the most sought-after group of artists.Steven Sacks, owner of the bitforms gallery in New York says his client, the Canadian-Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has already made around $600,000 for an AI artwork.

Klingemann also makes portraits, sometimes tweaking the input data with voluntary glitches to avoid replication. Anadol uses mostly video to produce abstract data-based animations. Some also criticize Obvious for giving the impression that AI can create works of art without human interference.

 

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