The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Art Creation and Curation

1. Introduction to AI in the Art World

Artificial intelligence has been breaking into the arts in various ways, giving rise to a rich ecosystem at the junction of AI and art. People with very different professional backgrounds are willing to incorporate AI in their art creation processes, and the outcomes are diverse. Ranging from AI art tools like deepart.io to Maya, painting and composing robots, or fully AI-generated music, literature, or visual art pieces.

The relationship between AI and art is not new. Since the very beginning of AI, programs and systems have been developed to understand, create, and enjoy art. What is genuinely new and has triggered a lot of interest recently is the use of the most advanced AI techniques to develop systems that have the capacity to learn, understand, and create art in a human-like way.

The interest in developing AIs capable not only of creating art-like artifacts but of actually creating real art with artistic value is also relatively new. Just a small group of artists is exploring the potential of these advanced AIs in their creative processes. In the next pages, we will first introduce some of the most relevant contemporary AI techniques that are either used in the academic world to study the connections between AI…