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Restoring Paintings with AI and 3D Printing

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Restoring Paintings with AI and 3D Printing

Using AI to create artwork may seem counterintuitive, but the creative work of computers is increasingly seen as a legitimate value. At a recent auction at Christie’s, the world’s largest and most famous auction house, AI-assisted artwork sold for $ 432,500, leading critics to rave about the future of AI artistry, and whether it could be considered a work of art.

Whichever side you are on, artistic AI is gaining traction, and artists are adopting it in many ways, like any other tool they use to create original work or retell the world’s most valuable pieces. With invaluable artwork subject to collateral damage or vandalism, and how celebrity artists have recently made bold statements about our attitude towards priceless digital art, how can computer-generated paintings change the way we think about art and its value?

Robot artists

Founded in 2016 by Stanford graduate Andrew Conru, the Robot Art Competition attracts a mix of artists, mechanics and computer scientists interested in developing the robotic art field. This year’s winner CloudPainter uses a selection of deep learning, cameras, and 3D printed brush heads to achieve increasing autonomy in the paintings CloudPinter produces — but as von Arman noted in Vice & HBO, my documentary last year, ‘ That is the creative decision I make Photos take ‘, the program will allow it to make decisions on the basis of his instructions, he is still the’ Artist ‘, which indicates that.

Recreating the classics

Reproductions have long been an important part of the art world, adding value to the original and allowing greater democratization of an artist’s work — in fact, print editions and reproductions have recently become the fastest-growing segment of the art market. Faithful replicas do more than just spreading an artist’s work. Replicas that are so close to the original as to be deemed a facsimile can be used to replace and preserve the original artwork, or revive classic paintings lost to fire, theft, or the mists of time. Creating these facsimiles historically has been difficult for a number of reasons, but new techniques have surfaced that address these issues while seeking to make the process of art reproduction easier and more accurate.

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