Interactive Robotic Painting Machine (2011) from benjamin grosser on Vimeo.
“Artist and composer Ben Grosser, who is working on an MFA in New Media at the University of Illinois, has developed a robot that’s able to hear the world around it and use those sounds to create a painting.
The Interactive Robotic Painting Machine has a microphone that captures surrounding sound and a genetic algorithm designed to transform those sounds into computer code ultimately drives the robot’s paintbrush in three dimensions, controlling how much paint to put on the brush and how much pressure to apply to canvass.
The sounds can come from people in the room or, when people aren’t around, can come from the machine itself. In a related project called HeadSwap, the robotic painter collaborated with violinist Benjamin Sung, who played music composed by Zack Browning. At the same time that Sung was watching the machine paint and using what he saw to inform his music, the machine was listening to Sung play and using that to inform its art.
On his website, Ben says, “It is important to understand that what the machine paints is not a direct mapping of what it hears. Instead, the system is making its own decisions about what it does while being influenced by others.”"
Via Discovery News (Thanks Annette)
Who chooses the colours for each painting?
I’d like to see one of those ‘experts’ psychoanalyse these paintings, like they did with the chimp paintings in the 60s
Think it needs a few art lessons!
Does it decide when the paintings are finished?
I will admit I cried for ASIMO when I saw it had no instruction to put it’s arms out when it overbalances; but don’t these paintings look sad and angry to anyone else?
Interesting sure, but when it comes to art, I know what I like (which does frequently include very abstract stuff), and I don’t see anything interesting in what came out of that machine.
i’m glad it isnt in NJ–meltdown! :0
Did anyone notice on the last painting shown its painted a smile face on the top left hand corner
Personally I’m only interested in art which is about human expression, the artist’s personal reaction to the world, something that speaks to me about humanity – and that could encompass pretty broad scope of art. But this? It has none of that, its just another “clever idea” wrapped up in the word “art”. For me its got nothing to do with art and looks like a complete waste of time and money – and gallery space – some really good artist could be exhibiting there. Too much of this kind of stuff around IMO. Novel ideas and art are not the same thing, but these days they are often confused IMO.
Antiphones,
Are you missing the point?
A man made a machine that listens, interprets and then paints according to that interpretation. That in itself is art! The realism of the idea is very artistic.
I remember seeing something similar several years ago. It consisted of two council workmen. One on a trestle painting. With the other leaning against a wall whistling.