Portraiture (Alan Turing)


The screen is divided into 3 slots. In slot 1 is the \"original\" to create our rendition. In slots 2 and 3, the computer attempts (quite badly at first) to compose something in random fields of similar colors. The program chooses which of the two is a better likeness. That slot remains and the other keeps trying. It tries hundreds of timers until it comes up with a version that is closer than the one kept. At this point the new version is kept and the other slot begins trying.


featured at Derivative show at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
featured at Rhizome's Artbase.
featured at Ohio State University's Darwin Bicentennial


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