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Can you make a computer understand and produce art?

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Although artificial intelligence techniques have been successfully applied to reproduce many rational features of human behaviour, a great barrier has been encountered in simulating human activities where intuition and emotion are involved. Art making and viewing are processes where typically rational and mechanical aspects interact with aesthetic and cognitive criteria. Can you make a computer understand and autonomously produce art?

The main purpose of this paper is to present the most relevant approaches in the study of art perception and creation via computer, focusing on the results achieved in artistic computer graphics.

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Maiocchi, R. Can you make a computer understand and produce art?. AI & Soc 5, 183–201 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01891915

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