{"id":23697,"date":"2023-05-16T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speakart.it\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T09:51:54","slug":"the-founder-of-ai-art-harold-cohen-and-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/en\/the-founder-of-ai-art-harold-cohen-and-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"The founder of AI Art: Harold Cohen and AARON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; 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Painter, printmaker and graphic designer, he is better known for his most important creation, AARON, a computer program based on an artificial intelligence prototype, capable to generate works of art. These may be considered as some of the first examples of computer-generated art.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23690\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23690\" class=\"wp-image-23690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HC0023-1024x491-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HC0023-1024x491-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HC0023-1024x491-1-980x470.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HC0023-1024x491-1-480x230.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Cohen, Untitled, 1981<br \/>Courtesy Outland<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">After a brief period as a more established artist, Cohen was introduced to the world of computer programming: after a period as visiting scholar at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford in 1971, he has begun to imagine and create a program to codify the pictorial act, naming it AARON. This idea, conceived in 1973, is the result of a broader question that Cohen was asking himself: understanding what Art is.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201ceducation\u201d of AARON has followed a similar path to one of humans, through the help of a robot called \u201cTurtle\u201d for the production of images in the real world. In his first period of life, AARON was capable to produce only monochromatic lines without any iconographic reference. These were in a first moment coloured by Cohen himself. After the iteration of the program through the years, the artist was then capable to add more sophisticated aspects to representation, like the creation of the human figure in the \u201980s and the addition of colours in the \u201990s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">All these passages were possible thanks to the creation of a \u201cmemory\u201d which could help AARON to remember past actions and act in the present, take autonomous artistic decisions and follow precise instructions. The difficulty resides in the \u201cblindness\u201d of the computerized system: whereas humans\u2019 cognitive systems develop by recourse to an external \u201creal world,\u201d an AI\u2019s cognitive system has no external world to apply it to. AARON had to learn to see in the dark.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23694\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23694\" class=\"wp-image-23694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20160509cohen-obit-slide-3VIK-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20160509cohen-obit-slide-3VIK-superJumbo.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20160509cohen-obit-slide-3VIK-superJumbo-1280x841.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20160509cohen-obit-slide-3VIK-superJumbo-980x644.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.speakart.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20160509cohen-obit-slide-3VIK-superJumbo-480x315.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Cohen with an AARON installation at\u00a0 San Diego Museum<br \/>Courtesy Harold Cohen Estate<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Teaching to a computer program how to take decisions was the work of a lifetime for Cohen. Unlike most recent forms of AI for the creation of images based on text input, the implications of AARON\u2019s work have always been more conceptual than concretely \u201cuseful\u201d. 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