You can give a robot a paintbrush, but can it create art?

I believe art is unique to conscious minds. So, the short answer is NO!

But, think about it, sometimes the art is also what you make out of it. I look into my son's scabble, and see some nice shapes in it. He did not create those shapes intentionally, but still, they resemble some weird abstract reflection of things that I could never draw intentionally. Some of the times, the guided line drawings lead to more failures than the free hand flow of an "un-artist". Can we define them as art? Probably, NO? Its open to interpretations.

Well, try this test at buzzfeed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/quiz-can-you-tell-the-difference-between-modern-art-and-art
Did you pass with more than 60% success rate?

Now, if a robot is given a paintbrush and allowed to paint; Can you expect an art to come out of it?
Well, how about we put two modern arts sideways and lie to you that both came from one of the  upcoming/super talented artist?

Well, studies have suggested that you could tell the difference...
http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/even-a-monkey-telling-good-abstract-art-from-bad

So, the answer still seems to be a NO!
Give it some time, may be the statement will change to affirmation in the future.

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Who said science is hard and boring?

Study the science of art and the art of science.
--Leonardo da Vinci

Princeton University is hosting fourth Art of Science competition. The exhibit includes work by undergraduates, faculty, research staff, graduate students, and alumni.  The theme for the 2010 Art of Science exhibition was “energy”.

If you have experience of working (hard) in a lab, you know the instant pleasure of seeing something beautiful and artistic. I wonder how much influence that has onto creativity. I have few such experiences of non convergent bubble graphs during my Monte Carlo runs. I will certainly post few of them in future... to me they looked beautiful.

Credit: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/
The pictures presented there were produced during the course of scientific research. 
Here is the video from Vimeo:



URL: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2010/
While you are there do not forget the previous year's archives.

OK OK... It may be hard; but it is not boring :P

Drawings are teasing me

I love drawing. It is just about time. I don't have enough. So, for the present time I have to say: I used to do drawings.

After coming to US, I got opportunities to visit various galleries like Norman Rockwell Museum, The Clark Art Inst, Williams art Gallery and local art galleries in Troy on "last fridays" and Downtown Albany on "first fridays". I am thankful to my friends for taking me to those places. The events like First Friday and Last fridays are held to promote the local talents in the town. Since this happens every month, this also gives opportunities for socialization. I still remember a huge painting display by a lady artist (8Ft by 5ft or so) who had a first crush on teen age and could not forget how she was hurt even after long time.
Art carries memories. Specially the paintings by Norman Rockwell are now blended as cultural ones.

Wondering online, I found a nice site with drawings and could not stop posting this.


I would recommend a visit to http://www.dueysdrawings.com/drawings.html

Enjoy!

What is the Reality?

In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus asks Neo: “What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” What the movie doesn’t tell us is that even when Neo awakens from the fake world of the “Matrix” into the “real world,” his brain will continue to construct his subjective experience, as all of our brains do, and this experience may or may not match reality. So in a way, we all live in the illusory “matrix” created by our brain. Years before The Matrix, neurologist and Nobel laureate Sir John Eccles wrote: “I want you to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no sound—nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty, no scent.”

more on ...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-perspective-on-3d-illusions

The article is nice and vizualizes how we perceive things in reference to art.