MUS 232 - Art of the Machine: Creative Computing from Algorithm to A I

4 Hour(s)
General Education F1

This course will explore algorithmic art, which is art created according to a set of predetermined rules or parameters. We will start with the geometric complexity of Islamic art, and the modernist works of Sol Lewitt. Then we’ll explore specific algorithms from iteration to recursion, Markov Chains, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Generative Adversarial Networks at the cutting edge of research in to artificial intelligence. At each stage, we will be creating art works which explore and reflect the computing concepts we are studying. Along the way, we will pause to reflect on the nature of art: can a computer create real art? Can it make us feel something? What happens when the machine becomes smarter than we are?

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