"Sparking Computer Creativity: Generative portraits modeling human creativity, Rembrandt and Darwin"

posted: july 13. 2010

Steve DiPaola presented his work on Rembrandt and Darwin at the National Gallery of Art, London, UK from July 4-10, 2010.

A sampling of generated portraits that use theories of how we humans became creative, modeled in computer form. The portraits then are generated outputs of his computer system which, at times, appear to be creative on its own. The main work, uses Darwinian evolution, albeit in computer form, to evolve a growing family of living portraits that ebb and flow through different creative epochs while striving to resemble of Darwin’s facade. Also on display, a work in progress art/science piece, which coincides with DiPaola’s talk at the National Portrait Gallery (July 8th, 19:00), explores how portrait masters intuit vision and perception science in significant ways. These techniques, which may have matured with  Rembrandt, are ”taught” to a computer system which paints portrait on its own.
In the lower, Tenderproduct  space