Time is running out to see Harold Cohen: AARON! Harold Cohen devoted his life to exploring the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to translate an artist's knowledge and process into code. The works in this exhibition—the earliest of which are from the 1970s—were made with AI and include drawings, paintings, videos, and projections. These plotters are modern recreations of the drawing machines that Harold Cohen built, and the drawings they've produced are hung on the gallery walls, which i

"Rakin' and Scrapin'" Composed by Harold Mabern Emmet Cohen - Piano Philip Norris - Bass Kyle Poole - Drums | Emmet Cohen

📹 Watch LIVE as the plotters in Harold Cohen: AARON create drawings in our eighth floor gallery. In the late 1960s, Harold Cohen conceived an AI artmaking software that he later named AARON. To generate AARON's output, Cohen built his own plotters and painting machines, which interpret commands from the software to make line drawings on paper with automated pens. These active plotters on view in the Whitney's galleries are modernized recreations of Cohen's early drawing machines. Constructed sp

The curatorial team behind Harold Cohen: AARON are here to help us demystify AI art. Christiane Paul and David Lisbon explain how Harold Cohen's software AARON differs from today's AI systems such as Midjourney and DALL-E. For one, unlike these newer programs, Cohen's work doesn't appear to exist in uncanny valley. Check out the full video: https://bit.ly/3J0NvAf | Whitney Museum of American Art