Artifex Ex-Machina
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https://doi.org/10.21814/2i.3427Keywords:
Art, Computer, Photography, Turing MachineAbstract
Photography played a crucial role in artistic movements ruptures of the XIXth century, particularly in painting, being fundamental in modernism affirmation (perhaps better modernisms), being responsible for the panoply of artistic proposals, characterizing the first half of XXth century. It has been once more central in conceptualist rupture of the sixties/seventies. And it seems to play again a relevant role in the appearance of new artistic proposals, which we could call computational art, arising a new set of questions. Can computers one day create literature, art pieces? Photograph? This essay intends to discuss some of these issues, taking as a starting point a well-known article of Alan Turing and two contemporary photographic projects: The author’s Babel Archive and Orogenesis of the Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta.
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