With Melting Memories by artist Refik Anadol, the memory signals captured by the University of California Neurology Laboratory are interpreted by artificial intelligence to represent the acquisition of memories.

The miracles of art and tech | épisode № 06

With artificial intelligence, artists no longer create pieces, they create creation*

In art, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to detect forgeries and predict trends. But it is also, in a world increasingly assisted by AI, used at all levels of creation. Could this lead to a form of artificial imagination capable of producing something sensitive on its own? By creating machines that create, it’s a question that more and more artists are asking.

par Fabrice Delaye Publié le 03 novembre 2019, 07:20. Modifié le 03 novembre 2019, 11:22.

For forty years, Wolfgang Beltracchi painted counterfeit works of Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Max Ernst... Fake paintings that the worldly bohemian con artist, with the help of his wife Helene, then sold for tens of millions, fooling even the greatest experts. Beltracchi and his wife were finally arrested in 2010 by the German police and later sentenced by the courts in Cologne the following year (they live free and in Switzerland today).

The Zurich-based start-up Art-Recognition tested its forgery detection AI on the paintings like this Horde from Max Ernst's of forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.

With artificial intelligence, artists no longer create pieces, they create creation*

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