Art and AI Laboratory at Rutgers

The Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers:

Advancing AI Technology in the Digital Humanities

The Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers is conducting research on the intersection between the two disciplines. Our aim is to push the envelope of computer vision and artificial intelligence by investigating perceptual and cognitive tasks related to human creativity. We are focused on developing artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms in the domain of art.

News

November 2019: AICAN is featured in keynotes and panels at the International Culture Forum at State Hermitage Museum, Russia

November 2019: AICAN in invited exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, Art and Science exhibition. One million visitors visited the one-month-long exhibition

February 2019: AICAN is exhibiting at the HG Contemporary art gallery in NYC

October 2018: AICAN is exhibiting at The Art+, Frankfurt Book Fair.

October 2018: The Art and AI lab is presenting at two UNESCO events "The Intelligent Museums" and "Creative Cities"

June 2018: Dr Ahmed Elgammal give a TEDx talk "Can the Machine be Creative"

April 2018: HBO Silicon Valley TV series chose an AICAN art work to be shown in an episode of the show's newest season.

September 2017: Artsy acclaimed our AI Art-generating algorithm (AICAN) as "The biggest artistic achievement of the year"

September 2017: The Art & AI lab will feature art produced by the AICAN algorithm for the first time in two exhibitions in October. The exhibitions will take place in Los Angeles as part of the STATE festival and in Frankfurt in the Art+ event as a part of the Frankfurt Book Fair. details here.

July 2017: Our AI art-generating algorithm (AICAN) received worldwide media attention, including coverage by New Scientist, MIT technology review, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Smithsonian magazine, and many others.

September 2016: A TV segment produced about the Art&AI lab won the Mid-Atlantic Emmy's award in the "Arts/Entertainment News Single Story" category. The segment was part of the State of the Arts show and was aired on PBS New Jersey and Philadelphia in spring 2016 and can be seen here.

May 2016: The first computational art history bootcamp at Rutgers was held between May 23rd and May 27th 2016. The lab hosted Professor Marian Mazzone, Chair of art history at the College of Charleston. The bootcamp activities included a series of lectures, hands on workshops, and a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, where graduate students in computer science interacted with and learned from Prof Mazzone about details of style evolution in art.